How to Use across the street in a Sentence
across the street
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The scene was calmer across the street.
—Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 17 Jan. 2026
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Walk over to the church across the street.
—Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
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Skip Dunn lived across the street from me.
—Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
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Skeet’s truck is parked across the street,’ just like surveilling us.
—Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
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Tour buses park across the street.
—Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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Six joints climbing across the street.
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
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Neil Young grew up in a house just across the street.
—Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
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Many of the children walk across the street to school.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 23 Feb. 2026
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Poway’s library is across the street.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
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Sadly, all of the homes across the street burned down.
—Rina Nakano, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
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Johnson’s house is right across the street from the school.
—Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 23 Feb. 2026
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Clara picked up the phone and dialed the house across the street.
—Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
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My neighbors, across the street and two doors down, have five cars.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
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The trees across the street, in the park, looked like upside-down trees.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
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Dressed to the nines, bottle-blonde hair coiffed, black cab parked across the street.
—Sophie Williams, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2025
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The home's garage door was blown from its hinges and could be seen near the curb across the street.
—Ernesto Centeno Araujo, USA Today, 4 July 2025
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The two lived in the lab during the day and at the bar across the street at night.
—Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
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Some across the street tried to get a good angle to take a photo.
—Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 19 June 2025
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The Grand Opera House is just across the street.
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Kick them loose on the playground equipment across the street.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026
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There's a car wash directly across the street.
—CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
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The firm headquarters is now across the street.
—Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
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Hess said about a competitor across the street.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
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The gunfire came from across the street, police said.
—Dallas Morning News, 9 Mar. 2026
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Ahead of her a coyote loped across the street with something in its mouth.
—Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
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The view from the balcony is of the rear parking lot and across the street.
—Megan Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
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The man who left stood across the street and continued to yell at the rangers.
—Maritza Dominguez, AZCentral.com, 7 Sep. 2025
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There are only eight cars here and five more in a secondary space across the street.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024
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Ambere was across the street, smiling.
—Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
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The Asian concept is moving across the street.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 27 Oct. 2025
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