How to Use side street in a Sentence

side street

noun
  • We live on a quiet side street.
  • Not right on 30th, but the first space on the side street.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • Park on a side street and walk up to the park for a great view.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
  • The bikes are able to get around through traffic, through the side streets, around the venues.
    ABC News, 7 July 2024
  • The brass front doors now swing open on a side street in North Beach.
    Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2021
  • But many side streets had downed trees and wires in the D.C. region.
    Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Nayeri ditched the Tahoe on a side street, grabbing the cash and weed.
    Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • In the distance, billows of gas pour down a side street.
    Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
  • The truck zigzagged through side streets for two hours to avoid Israeli tanks on the main road south.
    Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
  • His mother has told him to avoid the side streets where the gangbangers hang out.
    Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2018
  • In an instant, one of the boys grabbed the money, and the whole group bolted down a side street.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • By midmorning, the line stretched around a city block and down a side street.
    Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
  • If all else fails, find a spot on Lincoln or a side street.
    Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Monawari parked on a side street and left his father with the car.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • On the Ave, and its side streets, there had been some longtime barbers.
    Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • When the man gave him a nearby address, Joe steered the limo up and down some side streets and found it.
    Mark Kram Jr., SI.com, 4 June 2019
  • The side street where Trump enters and leaves the building is off limits.
    Associated Pess, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Roque parked on a side street and stepped out of the truck with her children into the 96-degree heat.
    Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 29 May 2022
  • The man took the student down a small side street, pulled a knife out and pointed it in his face, the report says.
    Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The roads were so torn up that a trash company stopped service on the side streets.
    Julia Fair, Cincinnati.com, 24 July 2019
  • Tod Flowerswatched a line of engines head down a side street to the fire front.
    Julie Johnson, Sarah Ravani, Lauren Helper, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Try your luck at meters along Hillhurst or in free spots on the side streets.
    Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The city will close 116th Street at times, and parking on the side streets will be limited.
    John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2018
  • Most people enter the side door now, because the side street is long and has room to park.
    Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2018
  • On Wednesday night, crews milled the road on side streets and Park Road, Sommer said, to prepare for the paving.
    Emily Brindley, courant.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Parking is out back and on side streets in the West Park neighborhood.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Be sure to wander the charming narrow side streets and hike the steep stairways.
    Wendy Hu, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2023
  • In the 1974 storm, no lives were lost along Settlement Road nor the short side streets that feed into it.
    al, 14 Jan. 2020
  • When returning home, try to find a side street or a route that's out of the way, and stay with your smaller group.
    Louryn Strampe, Wired, 2 June 2020
  • At the time of the crash, two drivers in red and white Dodge Chargers were allegedly racing each other when the Rosales family turned off the road onto a side street.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024

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