Main Street
noun
1
: the principal street of a small town
2
a
: the sections of a country centering about its small towns
b
: a place or environment characterized by materialistic self-complacent provincialism
Examples of Main Street in a Sentence
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The tornado reached speeds of up to 110 miles per hour on a two-mile path before dissipating on Main Street, according to the NWS.
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Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2024
This exotic parade down to a corral on Main Street must have been beyond strange.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Light pours in only through a few wood blinds facing Main Street.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
Plans call for condensing the college’s Boise operations into an eight-story office building on the northwest corner of Main Street and Whitewater Park Boulevard.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 10 Apr. 2024
Screenings take place at the Main Cinema, 115 S.E. Main Street, Minneapolis.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
On the north end of Main Street several families set up in Arnold Park to get some distance from the hordes.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
In 1969, a federal grand jury had indicted him and two other White Panthers, Plamondon and Jack Forrest, for conspiring to dynamite a clandestine CIA recruiting office on Main Street in Ann Arbor in 1968.
—Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
The whole town exuded a settled, Yankee order, anchored around a tidy Main Street planted with elm trees and church spires.
—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2024
This exotic parade down to a corral on Main Street must have been beyond strange.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Light pours in only through a few wood blinds facing Main Street.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
Plans call for condensing the college’s Boise operations into an eight-story office building on the northwest corner of Main Street and Whitewater Park Boulevard.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 10 Apr. 2024
Screenings take place at the Main Cinema, 115 S.E. Main Street, Minneapolis.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
On the north end of Main Street several families set up in Arnold Park to get some distance from the hordes.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
In 1969, a federal grand jury had indicted him and two other White Panthers, Plamondon and Jack Forrest, for conspiring to dynamite a clandestine CIA recruiting office on Main Street in Ann Arbor in 1968.
—Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024
The whole town exuded a settled, Yankee order, anchored around a tidy Main Street planted with elm trees and church spires.
—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
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“Main Street.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Main%20Street. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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