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
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
They continued being pressed into the crowd as the warriors from the back herded them forward, and continued moving carefully toward the side street.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
