Main Street

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Recent Examples of Main Street Events continue Monday with the final day of the Chinatown Main Street’s annual New Year Flower Popup Market. Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 16 Feb. 2026 Dog beach pass holders will also have access to the Grey Park Dog Park, at Main Street and Ridge Avenue, once it is completed later this year, the city said. Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026 At its heart is a walkable downtown anchored by Falls Park on the Reedy, where waterfalls, lush landscaping, and the Liberty Bridge create a postcard-worthy setting just steps from Main Street’s shops, restaurants, and galleries. Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2026 Eventually the deputies pulled over the van’s driver in a cul-de-sac at Ballard and Decker streets, just south of Main Street in El Cajon, where Talavera allegedly exited the van armed with a knife. Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for Main Street
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Main Street
Noun
  • The new 44-room boutique hotel is the island’s first five-star property, housed in a three-story building on a cobblestone side street in Angra do Heroísmo.
    Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The children tried to lose the car by riding onto a side street, but the car followed them there as well.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In some cases, high-end brands also share the same manufacturing facilities as those on the high street.
    Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The French high street has suffered, with bankruptcies among low- and mid-tier legacy fashion brands such as Camaïeu, Naf Naf and Ikks, among others.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 19 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Thousands of miles of secondary roads are still paved this way today.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Black ice is expected to form, especially on secondary roads and areas with runoff from melting snow.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Officials stress patience as crews clear side streets While going around parts of the South Hills neighborhoods, it was seen that main roads were in good shape, but side roads were a problem.
    Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The permits merely involve the construction of some fencing along a side road at the former Oakland Army Base, where developer Phil Tagami’s harbor terminal is planned to be built.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 11 Dec. 2025

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“Main Street.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Main%20Street. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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