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
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
They explain that because the operational firearms commander did not know Sgt Blake and his colleagues were parked in the side street, he would also not have known that they were about to intervene.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2024
In contrast to the unattractive side street outside the window of Bókin, the library’s window provided a view of the fishing trawlers docked in the bay, and the mountains just beyond the water.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
