side street

Example Sentences

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One summer's day Hutchcroft says she noticed Barrett struggling to park her Bentley on the narrow side street - she usually had a driver.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

“We are going to be looking around, and we are staying with the group, not going on a side street, and not gather unnecessarily.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

I still prefer a side street, but I’ll take the freeway if I have to.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

His book is, on one level, a relic of a lost moment — a time before the Iranian revolution, when Afghanistan was a place a young traveler could "wander down a dreamy side street."

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2025

But Knockturn Alley, the side street devoted to the Dark Arts, looked completely deserted.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling