How to Use on the street in a Sentence

on the street

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  • Video of the scene showed broken chunks of concrete on the street.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Those machines need to be licensed and insured and on the street with the cars.
    Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Depp, in character, croaked at the large crowd assembled on the street.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 July 2026
  • More money, more staff, more conferences — more people on the street.
    David Lee Condrey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2026
  • The people were found dead on the street or in homes without air conditioning.
    Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • Parking can be at a premium, however, so be prepared to park on the street and walk up.
    Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 7 July 2026
  • As the car gets closer, someone on the street appears to warn the vehicle to stop by waving their hand.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2026
  • And even if a bed is available, not everyone who sleeps on the street wants to go to an emergency shelter.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
  • Two other people were wounded by glass debris on the street outside the building.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • The moped passenger, who police said was struck by the truck’s rear wheel, can be seen on the video splayed out unconscious on the street.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
  • The arrest went down so quietly that no one on the street noticed—not a single video hit on social media.
    Rodney K. Harrison, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
  • Mark Russell played Saperstein, the department's eyes and ears on the street.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 July 2026
  • Love for those people that are on the street to get a good place, and everybody working together like good people.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • People started singing, chanting, and cheering together on the street while standing in the rain.
    Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • Video shows Neil flopping his blubbery body around on the street, destroying fences and cuddling with traffic cones.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • During one such shortage, Amutwayi went to buy water from a vendor point on the street but did not have enough money to pay the full price.
    Raul Roman, NPR, 25 July 2026
  • That meeting could happen at a hospital, on the street or at a fast food restaurant, wherever is safest and most practical.
    Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • Depp emerged from the door of the installation and addressed the crowd, which had been gathering on the street in front of the installation for more than an hour.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 23 July 2026
  • The building is a multi-occupancy building with apartments above the businesses on the street level.
    Aziza Shuler, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Valerie is asked to speak out against her own show for the sake of human dignity—an act that seems noble on paper but risks putting two hundred or so of her crew members out on the street.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 July 2026
  • The extremely graphic video posted online shows Rangzen walking to a spot on the street carrying a Tibetan flag.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
  • Yamal has spoken about being recognised on the street at 13, the privations of fame accrued before puberty.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • With many fearful for their safety as US bombs fell from Iran’s nighttime skies with no warning, there was far more open hostility on the street.
    Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • Those people might be on the street or at the next table or just do things that suggest someone who had taken to the very close-quarter casual vibe that presumably is why someone would want to live here in the first place.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
  • Newsom credited investments in homelessness services for its flat rate of unsheltered homelessness — people living not in shelters but in tents, cars or on the street.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
  • This criticism may belie a bid to make complex topics more easily accessible to audiences ranging from Wall Street to the man on the street.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • The sheriff’s office sent up a helicopter to conduct aerial surveillance of Wheaton, but didn’t chase him on the street out of concern for drivers’ safety, the agency said in a news release.
    Rylan Digiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 July 2026
  • Aerial footage showed more than a dozen evidence markers on the street where the robbery and shooting took place, as LBPD officers surveyed the nearby area.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • Whether on the street or at the office, Posen is excited by the unbridled sartorial creativity in San Francisco, from the loud to the demure.
    Liana Satenstein, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026
  • The union president said Boston traditionally uses overtime to put extra officers on the street when officials know about recurring problem areas.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026

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