How to Use on the street in a Sentence

on the street

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  • Video of the scene showed broken chunks of concrete on the street.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Those machines need to be licensed and insured and on the street with the cars.
    — Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • More money, more staff, more conferences — more people on the street.
    — David Lee Condrey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2026
  • Two other people were wounded by glass debris on the street outside the building.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • The moped passenger, who police said was struck by the truck’s rear wheel, can be seen on the video splayed out unconscious on the street.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
  • Love for those people that are on the street to get a good place, and everybody working together like good people.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Video shows Neil flopping his blubbery body around on the street, destroying fences and cuddling with traffic cones.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • That meeting could happen at a hospital, on the street or at a fast food restaurant, wherever is safest and most practical.
    — Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • The building is a multi-occupancy building with apartments above the businesses on the street level.
    — Aziza Shuler, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The extremely graphic video posted online shows Rangzen walking to a spot on the street carrying a Tibetan flag.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
  • Those people might be on the street or at the next table or just do things that suggest someone who had taken to the very close-quarter casual vibe that presumably is why someone would want to live here in the first place.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
  • Newsom credited investments in homelessness services for its flat rate of unsheltered homelessness — people living not in shelters but in tents, cars or on the street.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
  • This criticism may belie a bid to make complex topics more easily accessible to audiences ranging from Wall Street to the man on the street.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • The union president said Boston traditionally uses overtime to put extra officers on the street when officials know about recurring problem areas.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • On Tuesday morning, a dozen volunteers joined Montano on the street outside of her restaurant, packing and boxing an influx of supplies — from sanitary supplies to nonperishable foods — dropped off by passing vehicles.
    — Melody Xu, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

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