side street

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Recent Examples of side street When returning home, try to find a side street or a route that's out of the way, and stay with your smaller group. Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 9 Apr. 2025 On weekday mornings, when pedestrians would activate the signal during rush hour, roughly 10 cars would usually be backed up down a side street. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025 Rodriguez was born and raised in Chicago and resided in the northwest neighborhood of Albany Park, in an apartment on a quiet, leafy residential side street. Becky Sullivan, NPR, 22 May 2025 Driving slow on the side streets, intermittently listening to country western, the only station the sprinter van gets Phillips said with a chuckle, the team peered into doorways and dead-ends where some people set up camp. Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for side street
Recent Examples of Synonyms for side street
Noun
  • Tucked down a side road, the building was anonymous, without a doorbell or a knocker, its purpose betrayed only by a slight smear of reddish paint on the front door.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • The side roads will be closed as well, plus there will be additional vehicle barricades and checkpoints throughout the Quarter.
    Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Parker said most highways are in decent shape, and road crews will focus on frontage and secondary roads.
    Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 11 Jan. 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
  • The homeowners association will require residents to park inside their garages to prevent the spillover of parking onto neighborhood streets, See said.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2025
  • Small blue and red Juneteenth flag with a star and the date June 19, 1865, waving in the wind at a street vendor's stall in front of shops on 125th Street in Harlem, New York...
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Getting Around Oslo With high road tolls and expensive, hard-to-find parking, driving in Oslo can quickly become a hassle, putting a damper on your weekend.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

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“Side street.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/side%20street. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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