backstreets

noun

plural of backstreet
as in streets

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  1. streets
  2. roads
  3. highways
  4. thoroughfares
  5. crossroads
  6. boulevards
  7. branches
  8. arteries
Noun
  • Among the changes needed on the city’s streets was the welding of more than 200 manhole covers to ensure the race cars don’t suck them up off the road.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The city feels theatrical and alive, with open-air theaters, cinemas, and a vibrant arts scene that spills into its streets.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of streets
Noun
  • Police urged residents to stay off the roads while cleanup and recovery efforts continue.
    — Ross DiMattei, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • That becomes particularly dangerous in cities, where roads, parking lots and buildings prevent rain from soaking into the ground.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of roads
Noun
  • Social media put the storm’s effects on display, with videos of floodwaters leaving cars stranded on highways, stormwater runoff erupting onto city streets and waterfalls cascading onto the subway tracks at Penn Station.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Abdeen drove across the highways of newly independent countries.
    — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • The councilmember acknowledged the overhaul of Hopkins Street was a monumental decision, one that would reshape transportation on one of the major thoroughfares connecting East and West Berkeley.
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • For example, in the San Fernando Valley, a person could leave the car at home when in walking proximity to bus lines on major thoroughfares, such as Line 165 on Vanowen Street that connects Burbank to West Hills.
    — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of thoroughfares
Noun
  • With light rail plans possibly in the works, Atlanta is at a crossroads.
    — Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • In the way that Malta has long lived at the crossroads of Europe, so too does the characterful 17-room property.
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of crossroads
Noun
  • The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is circulating photos of 27 people seen earlier this month at the auto supply business at Atlantic and Olympic boulevards.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The following day, several reports came in from Roseville residents who spotted a bear near Foothills Boulevard between Blue Oaks and Pleasant Grove boulevards.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of boulevards
Noun
  • Prune tree limbs so the lowest branches are 6 to 10 feet from the ground.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Tasks included scooping and dumping sand or gravel, digging and grading trenches, clearing debris from roads, removing tree branches from water edges, and breaking up rocks.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of branches
Noun
  • The wars in the Gulf and Ukraine have essentially shut off some of the world’s key passageways for global commodities, while extended droughts have restricted travel through the key arteries such as the Panama Canal.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • My heart and arteries look healthy during an ultrasound exam, but other test results reveal a genetic predisposition to high cholesterol.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of arteries
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