How to Use street in a Sentence

street

1 of 2 noun
  • The police car cruised up the street.
  • They live on a busy street.
  • You should look both ways before crossing the street.
  • Many of our customers walk in off the street without having heard of us before.
  • Cables knocked to the street from the crash were not live wires.
    Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Rude wanted to show me the most provocative street art in the city.
    Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2023
  • But to get to the bin, the wheelchair has to be in the street, because the container will be in the street.
    Curbed, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Music floated up on the breeze; crowds pushed through the streets.
    Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Scroll below for the best champagne gold looks in street style.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
  • According to Google Maps, the street is about a 16-minute walk from Luke's 32 Bridge.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The streets, the markets, every square foot of open space is crammed with people bustling to and fro.
    Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have poured into the streets to protest against the plan for the past seven months.
    Isabel Debre, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Even strangers on the street wanted to know more about Rivian or comment on how good the truck looked.
    Selika Josiah Talbott, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Some of those features include a clover bowl, a snake run with depths ranging from three to 10 feet, a ¾ pipe, and a large street plaza.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Fentanyl, which is up to 50 times more potent than heroin, is added to most street drugs.
    Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
  • Related Floods in Vermont close streets, take out bridges, and burst a dam.
    Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
  • Trees and tree limbs were down on streets, houses, sheds and vehicles.
    Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Their car — a 2015 silver Toyota Yaris — was later found on a street in Lacey.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Democrats, of course, haven’t always walked the right side of the street where consumer protection is concerned.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Police found no witnesses, but did find a cell phone, an Android like the one stolen from the victim, in the street.
    cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
  • His image was featured in schools and on banners hung along the main street leading into the city.
    Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Raise your voice, march in the streets, sign petitions, make calls, and knock on doors to get your neighbors involved.
    Elizabeth Warren, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The goal is to keep young people off the streets as well as provide support for families.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
  • The actress, 42, and film producer, 44, were snapped on the streets of Beverly Hills.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Because of this, many city streets are wide, stretching across seven or more lanes.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
  • The alert warns that murders have occurred at all hours including in broad daylight on the streets.
    Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And in New York, busy city streets look like scenes from a winter wonderland after a fresh dusting of the white stuff.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Houck had never considered that children might be on the streets.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Affordable housing also will be a part of the 20-acre project located at the intersection of Baxter and McDowell streets in uptown Charlotte.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Just as homes and streets are developing, a beautiful small community of new neighbors and friends is developing as well.
    Prime Development, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
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street

2 of 2 adjective
  • The Bird scooters were seized from the streets after the state said the scooters were not street legal.
    Anna Beahm | Abeahm@al.com, al, 3 Oct. 2019
  • In April, the city sent a strong message to joyriders by crushing more than 30 non-street legal dirt bikes and quads in a car compactor.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Cyber Branch: There were a lot of mistakes that could be made in setting up a site like this that someone who wasn't very street smart could easily make.
    CBS News, 10 Nov. 2020
  • ATVs are not street legal, though a driver's license is not needed to operate one.
    Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Its headlights, a strip of illumination, wouldn’t be street legal.
    Wired, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Diego Lopez, who lives in downtown Hartford, is a team lead in Compass Peacebuilders, the city’s largest anti-street violence organization.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The Bird scooters were seized from the streets after the state said the scooters were not street legal.
    Anna Beahm | Abeahm@al.com, al, 3 Oct. 2019
  • In April, the city sent a strong message to joyriders by crushing more than 30 non-street legal dirt bikes and quads in a car compactor.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Cyber Branch: There were a lot of mistakes that could be made in setting up a site like this that someone who wasn't very street smart could easily make.
    CBS News, 10 Nov. 2020
  • ATVs are not street legal, though a driver's license is not needed to operate one.
    Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Its headlights, a strip of illumination, wouldn’t be street legal.
    Wired, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Diego Lopez, who lives in downtown Hartford, is a team lead in Compass Peacebuilders, the city’s largest anti-street violence organization.
    Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 11 Aug. 2020

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