down the street

phrase

: some distance away on the same street
our neighbor down the street

Examples of down the street in a Sentence

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Yoon, who spent ages 14 to 28 living just down the street and around the corner from Lotte, beckons me to the cold case. — Vanessa Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 The site was down the street from her family’s home in Toledo. — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026 Billy Jones Way was unveiled during a ceremony on Sunday, on the corner of Bedford Avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn, just down the street from Baby’s. — Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026 Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Trees wrap around buildings, roots sprout from riverbeds of plastic trash, and vines creep down the street. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for down the street

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“Down the street.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/down%20the%20street. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.

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