across the street
Example Sentences
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Her bar is directly across the street from the field where the data center is supposed to go, and she wants her staff comfortable with 6 a.m. shifts if the construction crews start showing up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
A video released by Russian media shows an apartment building engulfed in flames at night, watched by residents gathered across the street.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Some of those people told me, ‘I live across the street from this Landover site, and I had no idea they were building this data center there.’
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
The port spent $36 million to buy the property at 100 Oceangate, a 13-story building across the street from the port’s headquarters and less than a 10-minute drive from the port.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
And three old men with black coats, white armbands, and sidelocks sat on the stoop of the opposite building, staring dispassionately at me from across the street.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
