person in the street
Example Sentences
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Some in Chile see Jara through the Cold War lens, “but if you ask the average person in the street, they couldn’t care less.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
"I thought he would understand what it was like to be an ordinary person in the street."
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2024
“We have individuals on our police force whom a person in the street might not want carrying a gun on their behalf,” D.C.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022
What I’ve come to realise – and love – is that Warhol democratised art, brought it down to the level of the person in the street, or the supermarket aisle.
From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2020
The sole and only person in the street beyond myself and this being was the woman already alluded to.
From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Lang, Andrew
