woman in the street
Example Sentences
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“The average man and woman in the street probably doesn’t care a lot about it,” said Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia.
From Slate • May 23, 2022
"The smallest things upset me. The other day I jumped when a woman in the street hiccupped as she walked past me."
From Fox News • Dec. 5, 2019
“It was the need of the nation, the need of the average man and woman in the street, the businessman, the mother, the fireman, the teacher — everyone wanted respect,” she wrote in her autobiography.
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2018
But economic sanctions require considerable time to take effect and are a blunt tool; harming the country's economy inevitably hurts the ordinary man or woman in the street.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2012
I was returning gayly, according to my habit, when I met a country woman in the street who seemed to me agreeable, although I saw little of her.
From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de
