How to Use up the street in a Sentence

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• Out the door, up the street, past the junkyard where the chickens and the old junkyard dog sits.
  — Mark Mordue, SPIN, 1 Dec. 2023
• Toward the end of the film, Bea is walking up the street with her new friend Cal (Ryan Reynolds).
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 May 2024
• One of my best pals back then was a kid who lived up the street from us, closer to the jetty.
  — Corky Carroll, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Every house going up the street is a two-story with gables that are in the 25-foot range.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 17 Nov. 2022
• The hockey rink up the street — T-Mobile Arena — takes up roughly the same amount of space.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• My daughter is the youngest kid in the neighborhood, and a girl up the street treats her horribly.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2023
• Signs on the door told customers their prescriptions had been transferred to the Walgreens up the street.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 June 2024
• Just up the street, though, residents say there’s plenty of quiet.
  — Jillian Atelsek, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• Greg Linden, one of Thao’s neighbors who lives just a few houses up the street, said news of the raid spread quickly through the neighborhood.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• Just up the street is Bar Chiquita — an upstairs bar and club with a back room that has regular drag shows.
  — Adam Groffman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2023
• The sign turned him into a minor celebrity: People stop to take pictures, a cafe owner up the street copied his text.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• Silence fell over the tearful crowd as a prayer was said over the young victim’s casket before it was carried up the street to the house of worship.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2024
• Someone’s front-door camera showed two men walking up the street on that fateful night and meeting a third at a truck, Rogers said.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• Attendees are encouraged to bring carved pumpkins to light up the street.
  — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2021
• Then my neighbors up the street who are from Mississippi.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 6 Mar. 2024
• The truck passed, revealing a police car parked on a dirt shoulder farther up the street, from where the semi-trailer had come.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
• Just up the street, Quint Gallery also has some exciting solo shows from local artists.
  — Seth Combscontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
• If there’s a wait—there often is without a coveted reservation—pop up the street to Paris Paris for a glass of wine and shrimp cocktail.
  — Kyle Beechey, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2023
• The operation took place the same morning in an outpatient clinic up the street.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
• Alternatively, the trail could — at least temporarily — follow a route up the street and back down on the other side of the bridge.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
• Some come from as far away as Europe and Asia; others are inquisitive neighbors from just up the street.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• There’s a friendly new grocery storefront up the street, too, doing nice soups and sandwiches.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
• Next: Peel up the street cobbles and stack them any which way—so long as the bulwark is tall enough to hide a regiment of street fighters and a squadron of women with rocks in their aprons.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Further up the street, LaTorella, a nurse at Winchester Hospital, spotted the source of the noise.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• In addition work is going on behind the façade of Caplan’s, just up the street, that was badly damaged during one of the recent floods.
  — Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
• Around noon that Friday, Shirlee finally switched up the street carrying a large paper bag.
  — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• In Japan, star architects designed glowing public bathrooms that light up the street.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2021
• Just up the street, Lety’s Diner sits on Main Street, a small, clapboard-floor eatery with five tables and plastic vegetables strung over the cash register.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
• In 2022, after months of taking part in a virtual cooking club and dipping her toes into the catering business, Tran learned of a food truck for sale up the street from her home in Takoma Park.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• In college, my track team used to stand near the peak of Heartbreak and wonder at why these seemingly experienced racers were walking their way up the street in front of the shrill screams of Chestnut Hill fans.
  — Peter Bromka, Outside Online, 28 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024