back street
Example Sentences
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Find the right back street just south of the French Quarter, ascend a set of stairs and you’ll find Habakuk Fine Coffee and Bistro, a Michelin Bib Gourmand winner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
A hair salon in a Kharkiv back street is one of many small businesses with a generator whirring noisily outside the door.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024
My brilliant solution was to somehow maneuver the Civic two blocks, bucking and wheezing all the way, park it out of sight on a back street, and furtively drive my own car to Seattle.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023
A vast array of people can be glimpsed when turning a corner or stepping into a back street.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2023
At the urging of Father Nicanor, he arranged for the transfer of Catarino's store to a back street and he closed down several scandalous establishments that prospered in the center of town.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
