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noun

ˈstrēt How to pronounce street (audio)
Definition of streetnext
as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel going the wrong way on a one-way street

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adjective

as in grungy

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Recent Examples of street
Noun
As if assaulting people and shooting people in the streets wasn’t enough. — Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 16 Aug. 2026 Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan and Harris Dickinson could be seen crossing the street multiple times during production in the clip. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
Adjective
The name of the new super-street combination? — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025 An atmospheric, sub-street level wine cellar-vibe addition in the former Biondi Mills in Ostiense, said to be inspired by the 1950’s American soda companies. — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 27 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for street
Recent Examples of Synonyms for street
  1. road
  2. grungy
  3. highway
  4. unkempt
  5. thoroughfare
  6. slovenly
  7. freeway
  8. untidy
Noun
  • Heavy deposits could collapse roofs, contaminate water, damage machinery, bury crops, disrupt power networks, and make roads difficult to use.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Torrential downpours routinely inundate roads and railway lines, disrupt air and rail traffic.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of road
Adjective
  • Building to a poignant climax, writer-director Noah Segan’s elegant love letter to both New York and to bygone cinematic eras recalls both the 1970s, with its grungy urban antiheroes, and the 1990s, in its American indie ethos.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In recent appearances on the stage and the red carpet, the 26-year-old has been leaning into her grungy, indie-goth aesthetic.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of grungy
Noun
  • As for additional traffic on the Parkway West itself, Zang says there won't be significant impact until crews start putting up steel over the highway.
    — John Shumway, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • From the highway, at least three sheriff vehicles were seen parked at the top of a residential driveway.
    — Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of highway
Adjective
  • Also in July, following a tenant’s eviction, the NYPD and ASPCA discovered nine dead cats inside the filthy, unkempt Queens apartment.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Milkweed tends to thrive in transitional areas, such as fallow fields, unkempt lawns, and the edges of highways.
    — Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Definition of unkempt
Noun
  • The plan calls for increasing building density along major thoroughfares.
    — Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The organization recently put out new renderings of a state-of-the-art stadium that would be built on land near SeaWorld just off of I-4, the main thoroughfare through the Orlando area.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of thoroughfare
Adjective
  • And this is where the movie takes off from retro mythology to become its own slovenly mod thing.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
  • To Washington, a beard made a man look unkempt and slovenly, masking the higher emotions that civility required.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Definition of slovenly
Noun
  • There are many exotic animals there, including zebra, camels, and lamas, all visible from the freeway.
    — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Born to Mary Florence Webb, a nurse, and John Sherman Heilmann, a civil engineer, Heilmann split her childhood between the Bay Area and, after her father took a job building freeways, Los Angeles, by way of El Segundo, a seaside village nearby.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of freeway
Adjective
  • Bäck’s film prefers untidy personal drama to a tidy moral verdict.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
  • If the shells are bothering you or making your landscape look untidy, cleanup is relatively easy and may even benefit your garden.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 16 July 2026
Definition of untidy

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