mean streets
Example Sentences
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And yet, late last year, I spent two weeks test-driving one of China’s hottest cars around the mean streets of New Jersey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
It's a reinterpretation of Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa's 1963 crime thriller High and Low, "played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City".
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
That may be because Musk’s sole strategy for cleaning Twitter’s mean streets of all those cyborgs has revolved around one simple but woefully flawed premise: Bots don’t pay.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2023
Mario, a mulatto laborer, grew up on the mean streets of Havana’s Miraflores district; Yolanda, who is white, educated and middle class, has been assigned to teach in a Miraflores primary school.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
When Mother had said Alice would be safer in the woods with me than out on the mean streets, she had won.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
