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

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

They moved back up the side street and onto the main road again, where a group of men on the opposite side was singing and weaving across the pavement.

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