Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for backstreets
Noun
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The normally bustling streets of Islamabad were deserted Saturday morning as security forces sealed roads ahead of the talks.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026 -
More than 270 people have died on city streets since the pledge, according to city data, and Sacramento ranked second-worst among California’s 15 largest cities for injury and fatal crashes, with 4,214 people killed or injured in 2023.—
Chris Fusco. Story produced with AI assistance,
Sacbee.com,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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During the chase, Leatherman used highly dangerous evasive moves on local roads, open fields and residential properties, court documents show.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2026
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Ten feet of flooding would cripple highways along Manhattan’s edges and damage vital infrastructure, including transit links to the airports.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But that central gathering represented just one of the day’s events demonstrations with the Sacramento region, with hundreds showing up that morning and afternoon to march, chant and wave signs along busy thoroughfares in surrounding suburban cities.—
ANDREW GRAHAM,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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While the state takes care of maintenance for a number of major roads like interstates and highways, the city must maintain other high-traffic thoroughfares.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Creative differences between Levinson and HBO over where to go from this existential crossroads delayed the season even further.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
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Surely, every generation faces this devastating crossroads of actual adulthood.—
Annah Feinberg,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Székesfehérvár lacks Budapest’s grand boulevards and baroque extravagance, but the city is not without luster.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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Before there were dusty trails and stage coach routes and boulevards and freeways, there was the Southern California watershed — the maze of rivers, creeks and washes that sent rain water from the mountains and valleys to the ocean.—
Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The sap run from the maple trees has started to dwindle as the branches begin to bud out.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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How to prepare before strong winds approach Trim tree branches away from your house and power lines.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In simpler language, doctors located the arteries feeding the prostate gland using dye injected into the blood, then partially blocked the blood flow to diminish the prostate.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Van Nuland was more interested in what was happening underground, where sprawling systems of fungal threads — from microscopic ducts to arteries thick as yarn — extended dozens of feet horizontally in all directions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Backstreets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backstreets. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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