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UK
/stɹˈiːt/
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[ US /ˈstɹit/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹit/ ]
NOUN
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the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
be careful crossing the street -
the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
she tried to keep her children off the street -
a situation offering opportunities
he worked both sides of the street
cooperation is a two-way street -
people living or working on the same street
the whole street protested the absence of street lights -
a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
they walked the streets of the small town
he lives on Nassau Street
How To Use street In A Sentence
- The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
- The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
- Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'. Archive 2009-01-01
- A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
- A little diner food helped, but after the incident with the couple on the street all I wanted was to go home, take a shower, slather lotion on my blistered tootsies, and lick my wounds.
- We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
- The "lawmen" in the Justice Department, etc, who are doing the hard work to bring these Wall Street criminals to the courthouse will be compromised. Stephen Gyllenhaal: Goldman and Sachs and Lipstick and Rouge
- No, Jack won't have nobody tell him what he can't ever be, even if he weren't born with a silver spoon in one end and an Harley Street hooter up the other. Jack Scallywag
- Philips is also exploring the potential of applying LED to help 'declutter' city streets increasingly obscured by a variety of elements, including lighting fixtures. WebWire | Recent Headlines
- A drunk was standing in the middle of the street, swaying uncertainly and trying hard to stay upright.