back street
Example Sentences
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“But imagine George Lucas making some weird low-budget, ‘Battle of Algiers’ version of ‘Apocalypse Now’ in the back streets of Sacramento,” Fischer said.
From Los Angeles Times
A few went to Dartmouth, as the writer did himself; others grew up in the back streets and bazaars of the Punjabi capital of Lahore.
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
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