side street

Example Sentences

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It started on a quiet residential side street, then turned left past a giant blue mural before snaking 100m down the main road to the doors of a new dental practice.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 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

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

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

We came to a slightly less busy side street.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman