side street

Example Sentences

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“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

There’s also one in Hollywood where Cafe Des Artistes used to be on that weird little side street.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Up another side street, near a vacant commercial business, Shiela McPheely is waiting to collect her sisters from their holiday in Albufeira in Portugal.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 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

She led them down a side street, then into the shelter of a shadowy alleyway.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling