How To Use The street In A Sentence

He saw something glinting in the streetlight, and went over to investigate.
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.
A drunk was standing in the middle of the street, swaying uncertainly and trying hard to stay upright.
Hold to my hand while we cross the street.
A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box.

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We ended up walking the streets with our suitcases and had to spend the night in a flea-bitten youth hostel, with lots of old men and young lads.
I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
The Australian was interested in Iroquois Falls because the Paper Company owns the whole town; they have made the streets and the municipality, and the stores, and they were good enough to rent premises to Dr. Monteith for his liquor store, to make some revenue. Northern Ontario
I'd chase along the street nearest the river, dodging out side streets to the riverbank.
This has purely been a casual meeting in the street.
Environmental health officers hope the cotes will keep pigeons off the streets and discourage them from feeding on waste food and titbits offered by tourists.
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
She emotionally recalls what it was like as a teenager running into her homeless dad on the streets and pretending she didn't know him.
I got baked on tequila last summer and passed out in the street.
You got a big hefty looking bloke who looked like he could handle himself in a barney, put him and a bunch of like mates out on the streets at all hours of the day and night as a visible presence.
Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
The relationship between the street and the galleries inside is not as intrusively immediate as is suggested by the open-ended, perpendicular orientation.
He escaped a rolling road block by turning into the street where he lived, only to find it blocked by another police car. Times, Sunday Times
Across the street, protesters denounced what they called a fraudulent vote and urged a boycott. Undefined
In the event, Gabriel got work with a road crew, digging up the streets of north London for cable companies; Andrea, again unable to persuade a bank to give her an interview, took up house- cleaning.
Rivlin said that anti-immigration rhetoric has galvanized immigrant voters, bringing them to the streets in protest and to the polling booth.
He stated that his van was missing and it was found, smashed into another vehicle, up the street.
We'll find ourselves on the streets if we don't pay the rent.
Now we want to know why the psychiatric services let her out on the streets. The Sun
The attention shone on her, as strangers stopped her in the street to ask about her imminent arrival. Times, Sunday Times
As soon as the door closed behind her I hurried to the dirty window in the front room and I watched as she walked down the street looking remarkably out of place in the drab surroundings in her bright green dress.
From early spring to late fall, he will leave his apartment, limp across the street and coax whoever is willing to play patty-cake with him until the bus arrives.
The evening takes the form of a memory play told by the elderly Kat, now a shoeshine boy working the streets, who looks back at his younger self.
Xuanrang the streets, for you to squat in the tight loose shoelace.
Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
Insects swarm about the damp light of the street-lamps, their buzzings reflected very slightly in the bitumen below your feet.
I would add another category to your dichotomy (trichotomy?) and that would be 'the street'. Online Content Bundling, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Now, from the left, comes a ragtag assortment of college kids, labor unionists, conspiracy theorists and others who've taken to the streets in protests dubbed "Occupy Wall Street.
He waits eagerly for people to recognise him in the street, and sometimes they do, and tell him off for being so horrid and mean. Times, Sunday Times
Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching. It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
The police blocked off the street where the gunman was hiding.
Every evergreen bough groaned with half a foot of snow; the streets and sidewalks had disappeared.
The street urchins had decided views on literary value, and they were always keen to hand on advice. Times, Sunday Times
Over 6,000 policemen and women were on the streets of central London backed up by mounted police, three police helicopters and numerous plainclothes spotters on the roofs and in the crowd.
He looked amazed and slightly stricken in the streetlight. AN OLDER WOMAN
A woman is approached in the street by a scruffily dressed youth who opens his mouth - and asks for directions to the local mosque.
The streets and buildings display barely no signage. Times, Sunday Times
The streets were swept with electronic gadgets seeking hidden bombs.
The Kensington High Street rag reckons chuggers—paid workers who stop you in the street and persuade you to give over your bank details for charity—are well on their way out.
The streets were crammed with people walking on hot coals or lying on nails. Times, Sunday Times
She left her purse on the counter, so I had to trot down the street after her.
The city has finally given a definite date to replace the street light.
The driver honked the horn of his car hoping to disperse the crowd in the street.
I couldn't see where I was going most of the time and people used to yell at me as I stumbled randomly, blindly down the street.
The former choirboy entered while studying Spanish on a gap year in the capital Santiago and now gets mobbed in the streets there. The Sun
He couldn't stop looking the man's shiny gold tooth that glinted ominously in the streetlight.
Two people along the street up, who also don't stay.
In all, some 15.5 million pills were confiscated and the street price for the drug doubled or trebled over the course of the three months from February 1 to April 30.
The crowds had all gone home and the street was quiet once more.
Taxis are plentiful and can be found at major hotels as well as in main tourist areas or cruising the streets.
He preferred to watch, unobserved, the street life of the city from a hole in his prison wall, than to smoke cheroots and talk politics with his fellow prisoners.
Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eyewater, from eye-water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations. The Gilded Age, Part 1.
With white lights twinkling around the street-facing windows, a single red rose on our table and the candle lamp glowing between us, our fondue dinner felt almost romantic.
Rome and her iniquities; the streets, deserted by the people, were trodden by French patrols; all was silent as the grave itself; and not a friend was there to bid them adieu; not a relative to speak a consoling word to the departing; and none to acquaint the unfortunates who remained behind with their terrible calamity! Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
The stores that faced out into the streets did so with wide, gaping maws created by the shattered state of their glass windows.
He urged bluenoses to take ladies of the street into their homes until they got back on their feet, so to speak.
Once primarily limited to intergang violence, the bloodshed of the city’s drug trade began spilling onto the streets of the border city in July 1997, when, at the age of forty-two, Amado Carrillo Fuentes died during a botched cosmetic surgery procedure in Mexico City, supposedly designed to change his appearance to evade law enforcement. THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ
Even the superperson resulting from such a genetic break-through could still run headlong into the buzz saw of words heard by so many laid-off mid-level executives who have recently hit the streets: 30 DAYS TO A GOOD JOB
We arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies through the streets.
The street lay silent and deserted.
(Soundbite of kalimba) Mr. BERGMAN: And then there's another one, this is the - the one that I was just telling you about, the street sweeper tines from the Eastern Market, and this one is very sort of strange instrument, but it's not one that we use on too many songs. NOMO: The Sonic Maelstrom Of 'Ghost Rock'
Any campaign pushing for a name change has to begin with our own media, officials and the people on the street.
It gives us a wonderfully economical, almost anthropological view of the grrrls in their natural habitat - the street.
Local authorities have a duty to keep the streets clean.
It was not until 1985 that the law penalized the client for kerb-crawling, even though for many years it had penalized prostitutes for soliciting in the street.
The City had done a serious effort to take out beggars from the streets, yet the very cold streets were lined with immobile figures frozen in submissive, pleading positions. Why Does Homelessness Persist in Rich Liberal Cities?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A prostitute was soliciting on the street.
Instead of the classic English handshake at the end of matches, players opted instead for the ‘bro, you wuz good out there’ upright handclasp more usually seen on the streets of Harlem.
At this point the imagery begins to repeat itself in different iterations, as it will for the rest of the novel: The man is at the station where the woman is now looking at him "vacantly"; the dog appears again, blocking his path; he walks along the street, where "a cyclist is trying to pedal along," the fish in his saddle bag now joined by a loaf of bread on top of it. Experimental Fiction
The promise was made on November 8th in order to de-escalate the stand-off with police who were preparing to attack those inside the building as well as their supporters on the street.
We should blitz the streets, targeting the problem areas when discos and takeaways close and schools.
EXAMPLE: The street merchant is a skilled pitchman who can attract a crowd to his tiny sidewalk stand within less than a minute.
In the last year, three general strikes called to protest against the president, protests in the streets, people killed, and one attempted coup.
The houses on this side of the street have all got odd numbers.
The street was so crowded that cars were unable to pass.
To move forward, the gripman squeezes the grip which grasps the moving cable under the slot in the street. SFGate: Top News Stories
Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two. Gravity's Rainbow
As soon as the motorcade is past, people push through the barriers and run in the street. It's Like This, Cat
We reached rue Oberkampf, and the girl in the black tights was still complaining to her friend in the gray tights as they waited to jaywalk across the street, which was bustling with French students and artists whose bags, I imagined, held nineteenth century novels, or paperbacks with white covers; guitar strings, or paint brushes. Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Elbert Hubbard
The result is families under siege, war in the streets, the precipitous decline of the rule of law, the rapid rise of corruption, the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit.
Officers smashed down the door of a flat in Westbourne Grove, Southend, at around 2am after blocking the street with patrol cars.
For me to think I'm any better than a homeless person on the street is ridiculous.
I had to rent a driveway across the street.
Some cops raced along the street, telling householders to stay inside. The Sun
The lights up and down the street fizzled and popped, their sparks the last bit of light on a suddenly darkened street.
Thousands of riot police will be lining the streets amid fears that either anarchists or terrorists will attempt to disrupt proceedings.
The city lights in the distance glimmered, but mostly all the houses on the street were dark.
The donkeys and horses were gone, and a cluster of damaged buggies stood by the street corner, like unwashed dishes in a sink. Times, Sunday Times
The streetcar was derailed by a stone lying across the rails of a track.
There is another couple walking down the street, this one pre-consumerist, their handclasp signifying a ‘right of ownership’ in which she is ‘silently, sadly, complicit.’
Two further weeks were spent on an exterior set, built into the ruins of a castle outside Prague, where the streets of London were constructed.
One day I bought a "harmonium" kit at the street market in Bangalore. Boing Boing
He froze to death one night on the streets of Keijo; with every door barred against him. Chapter 15
My child holds onto my hand tightly while we cross the street.
She is on parade in her new dress in the street.
The sergeant fields complaints from businesses, keeps an eye out for felons and new faces on the street, and makes sure that certain hot spots are kept relatively clear.
Lots of farmers markets, bazaars that were open on the street.
This marauding gang moved through the streets stabbing people at random.
Angry townspeople protested in the streets following the explosion, shouting anti-government chants and tossing rocks at security forces.
The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice". Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head. The Garden of Allah
Outside in the street student protest marches wander aimlessly by.
And the owner of the property was no doubt a scallywag, trying to defraud the lessee of his money, and threatening to ‘throw [his] things on the street’.
Then I left the mosk and began to promenade the quarters and the streets until Arabian nights. English
He tries to buy one on the street, but his naïvete and lack of street sense only see him get scammed by con artists.
No, what is required is something contemporary, a song that at least emerged from the confusion of modern, urban Scotland, that sings of the streets rather than the rivers and sheepfolds.
The duo received a warm welcome as they took to the streets of Carlow.
Once more the evening sky is dark and the streets are empty, the silence broken only by the familiar rumbling bass from high performance stereos passing in the night.
The vehicle was still parked in the street outside. Times, Sunday Times
Often they wear layers of waistcoats and scarves that they've stolen on the streets. Times, Sunday Times
The noise out in the street was deafening.
A car comes rattling down the street, thick smoke pouring out the back, every door a different colour of blistered paint.
Borrow beckoned to me from across the street.
The barricades on the streets have been pushed to the side, not removed. Times, Sunday Times
Huge craters scarred the streets and Clifton airfield.
We took a walk up the street and Capa just stopped and joined a game of cribbage that some fishermen were playing, and next there would be a girl, and he joked 'Where's your boyfriend?' Rare Robert Capa print in auction of news photography treasures
September 13th, 2009 MICHAEL CAINE is calling on the U. K.'s leaders to reinstate national service in an effort to clean up the streets After shooting his new movie, Harry Brown, in London's most troubled neighbourhoods, Caine fears crime and drug use is out of control in his native Britain - and the government needs to do something drastic to stop youngsters from killing one another. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
The fact that soldiers are on the streets is a reflection of how terrified the government is.
Also, Mousavi has written a letter (in Farsi) to the Iranian security council saying that personnel from the Ahmadinejad-loyalist Basij militia are doffing their uniforms and attacking innocent people in the streets. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)
Many of the houses are linked to the street by short lengths of metalled or flagstone pathway, like little garden paths.
Look out for cars when you cross the street.
A colporteur, known to me, when engaged selling Bibles in a Brazilian town, reports that the fanatical populace got his books and carried them, fastened and burning, at the end of blazing torches, while they tramped the streets, yelling: "Away with all false books! Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
I could tell you about the cab which, ordered by phone, announced its arrival by loud horn blasts from the opposite side of the street.
A smashed pumpkin mingled with the leaves, its guts strewn about the street.
An entry sequence leading from the street, along a koi pond, into the entry, and to a negative edge pool distinguish the main public spaces and master suite while offering a place of repose.
More controversially, the resource accounts are shared, with electronic statements produced for the street as a whole, leading to self-policing peer group pressure to achieve the targets and so receive rebates.
Once more top-flight football has been cast into the street along with the garbage. The Sun
One young girl from the power -ful Alouite family was out playing in the street when she was kidnapped. A House in Fez
Traffic circulates in the streets of a city.
Failure to check the street or driveway for dripping antifreeze, which is poison for pets, is the cause of another common holiday pet problem. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
In early September, after a binge drinking session, he collapsed in the street and was rushed by ambulance to York Hospital where he was treated and discharged.
The most dull-witted, vulgar complaint about Gay Pride parades follows the form of ‘you don't see straight people running around with nipple clamps’ or ‘my wife doesn't dress up in latex and flaunt herself in the street ’, etc. and so forth.
They swaggered down the street, hooking on each other.
The main hall takes up most of the central span and the space under the east cantilever, while the one to the west projects out over the street to provide an entrance portico and foyer.
On development, the negative and subsequent positive reveal a composite image of the dancer performing in the street.
Regardless of who his relatives are, his real family was on the street.
The tram network provided transport links between the streets that made up the main lines of the urban network, as well as important residential and economic areas.
He has written that academics work more insidiously than the street toughs they effectively team up with on occasion.
You might have noticed more and more people of all ages gliding down the streets on skateboards, sliding along walls and flicking and spinning their boards with various degrees of success.
Shops and open markets lined the streets, blacksmiths and leather shops had iron workings and hides tanning outside.
Women were able to walk on the streets unharassed, and exiled businessmen returned to rebuild the broken country. 13 « May « 2008 « Niqnaq
Granted, Tyson's may be fixed over the next 30 years by extending the Washington Metro, but the street layouts, set up for maximum automobility, that define the urban space are problematic and limit possibilities. The End of Suburbia
I walked briskly up the driveway of Sean's house, the street light illuminating me.
No, he takes Scrooge to the market, and shows him the abundance there, especially the fruits sometimes literal of foreign trade: There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
Just as I hate marching in the streets but do it because it must be done, I’m SOOO not a fund-raiser hobnobber…but God do I want Lieberman out on his ass! Firedoglake » STOP THE WAR – Pressure Congress
Left to wander the streets of his native San Diego alone, the boy learned baseball on the sandlots at an early age.
Drawing the curtain aside, he looked down into the street.
The streets were empty of ‘decent folk’ and were rapidly filling with a different sort altogether.
Kids spent a few hours in a safe environment, off the streets, learning to nail an ollie, or take on the halfpipe. Shannon Galpin: Progress in Afghanistan? The Youth Movement in Kabul
I would rele like them to see what this world would be like if we didn't have hunting. they would see more deer killed on the streets and they would litterally have raccoons in their beds. Sea Kittens PETA
Children dressed in national costumes or their best clothes, waved flags and followed the marching bands through the streets of Oslo.
My spectacles picked up a few drops of water and turned the street lamps into sparkling sodium stars.
Behind the wall's remains she could see the streets, littered with the burnt-out husks of cars and buses, many of which lay on their sides on the broken bitumen.
They survive by selling ice lollies on the streets. Times, Sunday Times
My audience certainly isn't the proverbial man in the street.
There is a crowd of chanting people walking down the street, traffic is at a standstill and police line the pavements.
We stood on the rooftop and watched the parade on the street below.
After vespers, that is to say half-past seven in the evening, the police regulations prohibit any woman from appearing in the streets dressed in the saya. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
As she falls, the street lamp illuminates her face.
As they ate, he noticed two teams of refugees playing volleyball in the street.
A mismatched pair of detectives are forced to work together to track down a crime kingpin who has introduced a new narcotic to the streets. The Sun
Those Journos not "prioritized" were forced to line up in halls, down stairs, and out in the street to attend the screening of Up in the Air. Erica Abeel: Corporate Culture on Trial in Toronto
But I never tried any kind of drugs or offered my body on the street - I enjoyed my childhood and my teenager years, and when it was time I was conscient enough about the "dangers" that we face during our development - so it was my own choice that made me away from them. The 7 worst sexy toys for children
What was once the street is now the main lobby, which is glassed in so you can see its dome with original moulding and cornices.
Drawing the curtain aside, he looked down into the street.
It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
The exultant crowds were dancing in the streets.
Dancing in the street is rather infra dig for a bank manager!
The French had been able to spare but few troops for this point, but they had barricaded the streets of the town and posted a company of chasseurs, seventy-five in number, at the bridge with a mitralleuse. A Journey Through France in War Time
The street is about a mile in length.
After eating grape leaves and smoking apple sheesha at the Souq market, we headed back towards the Corniche, a lovely strip of road along the Gulf where most of the street celebration happened. Anne Peterson: What 2022 Means to Qatar
Across the street, an equally small group of proponents of the measure continued cheering with each passing car that honked, seemingly unaware of the decision reached inside. Maryland House derails bill that would legalize same-sex marriage
They exited the saloon after paying the barkeep and began to walk the streets until they received a call from Chidori reminding her to pick up the wire they needed for the guns.
It is the intense hunger for soul food, soulful music, spirited dance, and wild, ecstatic, celebrative praise, whether it be voiced by the ghosts of former African slaves on Congo Square or by the choirs of old-time Black Churches, or the bands backing Second Line dancers, or the street music in dialogue with window shoppers and feast-ready patrons. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
But not all of us are familiar with the street lingo of hardline hackers. Exploring language (6th edn)
In an instant he rushed across the street, and Brigg charged forward to meet him, grasping the hilt of his sword in both hands.
By the early hours of Sunday morning the fire was under control but days later the streets around the city's southside were blocked off and the air was fetid with the smell of damp smoke.
By the street of “Bye-and-bye” one arrives at the house of “Never”.
Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service.
Its copper domed roof is the only part of the house visible from the street. Times, Sunday Times
The council discovered that there were loose slates on the roof which would have fallen into the street without the gutter in place.
A few months ago, the cops busted an illegal numbers operation - the local Mafia's preferred racket these days - a few miles up the street from Vesuvio's.
The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds.
So in those summer hours, as I walked through the streets, dined in local cafes and watched the people go about their lives, I realised that Spain and I were not unalike. The Juniper Days – Part III
Though you will have to look through the affixed mesh cage designed to keep those pesky angst filled teenagers from making life difficult for the street cleaners.
When I see a group of immigrant boys playing a crude match of rounders in the streets of the village, I feel pride for the assimilating spirit of the sport.
In the end they picked me up on the street for some cockamamy charge and held me, just for an hour, nothing very terrible.
Those few brave souls, trying to buy time for their families to flee with their lives, were quickly cut down or overrun by the scores of humanoids that ran wildly through the streets.
If, as promised, they throng through the streets of London when the ban comes into force in February, any civil disobedience will only harden the attitudes of the liberal townies whose routines they will be disrupting.
Most of these flow from the streets and gutters, where they have been inappropriately disposed of, and into our waterways.
Now, a tenement is not a building that is stuck up in a ramshackle way on one of the streets in the lowest ward of the city. Problems of Population
A day after unveiling his campaign on a new website, Emanuel hit the streets vowing to "hear from Chicagoans – in blunt and honest terms" about what they want from their next mayor. Rahm Emanuel Snubs Pilsen Sit-In Protesters During 'Listening Tour'
During our first five minutes on the street, a carload of guys drove by, yelling ‘Hey, superman!’
The streets were so choked with sellers and shoppers alike that oftentimes only one lane of the street was passable for cars.

How To Use The street In A Sentence

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