back street
Example Sentences
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Saturday morning in a back street in south London - and I am leaning on a metal railing.
From BBC
With the man's son directing them, the HTS security force drives to one of the poorer neighbourhoods, weaving through a warren of back streets, past scrapyards and middens.
From BBC
He said the incident happened at the Hope of Hart children's club, which is housed in a former warehouse building on a back street.
From BBC
A hair salon in a Kharkiv back street is one of many small businesses with a generator whirring noisily outside the door.
From BBC
“I was calling all around the world, to the back streets of the Indian subcontinent,” Joe Allbaugh, then the head Oklahoma’s prison system, said at the time.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
