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
• Then two police cars rushed up the street the other way.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 29 July 2024
• 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
• Lambert and Shanks moved their truck a bit further up the street, where Lambert got out to write down Giga and Curtis’ patrol car numbers.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024