How to Use side street in a Sentence

side street

noun
  • We live on a quiet side street.
  • And all of them stacked up along all those side streets.
    — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Park on a side street and walk up to the park for a great view.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
  • While most of the main roads were clear, the side streets were still covered in snow.
    — Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The car takes the first right onto a much darker side street.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
  • Monawari parked on a side street and left his father with the car.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The bikes are able to get around through traffic, through the side streets, around the venues.
    — ABC News, 7 July 2024
  • The brass front doors now swing open on a side street in North Beach.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2021
  • By midmorning, the line stretched around a city block and down a side street.
    — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
  • His mother has told him to avoid the side streets where the gangbangers hang out.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2018
  • Nayeri ditched the Tahoe on a side street, grabbing the cash and weed.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The shiny cobbles of the side street, the white brick of the wall opposite.
    — CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • For pick-up, parents will now park on the side streets off of Rawson.
    — Tiffany Stoiber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The roads were so torn up that a trash company stopped service on the side streets.
    — Julia Fair, Cincinnati.com, 24 July 2019
  • Try your luck at meters along Hillhurst or in free spots on the side streets.
    — Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 15 Feb. 2018
  • On the Ave, and its side streets, there had been some longtime barbers.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The truck zigzagged through side streets for two hours to avoid Israeli tanks on the main road south.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Most people enter the side door now, because the side street is long and has room to park.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2018
  • In an instant, one of the boys grabbed the money, and the whole group bolted down a side street.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Naperville’s plans to widen the southwest side street during an final open house to be held next week.
    — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The traffic light was green, and the car began turning left onto a side street.
    — Cade Metz Jason Henry, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Be sure to wander the charming narrow side streets and hike the steep stairways.
    — Wendy Hu, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2023
  • But take a left down a side street and the hotel’s unassuming entrance awaits.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • The shop itself is like something down a Knightsbridge side street.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Tod Flowerswatched a line of engines head down a side street to the fire front.
    — Julie Johnson, Sarah Ravani, Lauren Helper, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Friday, mounds of snow remained on side streets in West Brighton.
    — Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • This is Chicago, which has hundreds of miles of side streets that should be used for safe bike routes.
    — Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • There’s a small side street connecting the neighborhood to the open space.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
  • When the man gave him a nearby address, Joe steered the limo up and down some side streets and found it.
    — Mark Kram Jr., SI.com, 4 June 2019
  • The man took the student down a small side street, pulled a knife out and pointed it in his face, the report says.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 15 Feb. 2018

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