How to Use street in a Sentence

street

1 of 2 noun
  • The police car cruised up the street.
  • They live on a busy street.
  • You should look both ways before crossing the street.
  • Many of our customers walk in off the street without having heard of us before.
  • The boys lived across the street.
    — Kate Casey, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2026
  • There was a dead crow in the street.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Her car was still parked on the street.
    — Aya Al-Hakim, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Jaylen Brown in street clothes?
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Dozens of streets, schools and parks bear his name.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Ours was one of the last lots cleared on the street.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Cars freeze in the middle of the street.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
  • Even begging on the street is work.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Many have taken to the streets in protest.
    — Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The massive blaze can be seen from streets away.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Some of those clients are now living on the streets.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025
  • And the two were tucked away from the street, out of sight from the mall.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That's a much firmer line than Charles' side of the street.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2026
  • Time will tell whom the streets will be named after this time.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Cables knocked to the street from the crash were not live wires.
    — Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Saw the dude in the street, lifted (the gun) up at me.
    — Mike Toole, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • Eight tankers full of water were still lined up on the street.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Davis was found dead near 10th and J streets.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • Has this caught on enough for people to say this to him on the street?
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 26 May 2026
  • Fort Lauderdale wants to keep its street art.
    — South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Like, fell from the top of a high-rise to the street below, dead.
    — William Earl, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • With a kid riding a bike down a quiet street.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But the energy war is a two-way street.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Nobody wants to see anybody killed in the streets.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Here’s a look at what streets will be closed during each event and for how long.
    — Hedija Spahalic, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • So why are so many students parking on city streets?
    — James Taylor, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2026

street

2 of 2 adjective
  • The name of the new super-street combination?
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The Bird scooters were seized from the streets after the state said the scooters were not street legal.
    — Anna Beahm | [email protected], al, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Its headlights, a strip of illumination, wouldn’t be street legal.
    — Wired, 23 Nov. 2019
  • ATVs are not street legal, though a driver's license is not needed to operate one.
    — Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The car is meant for public roads, but its rear wheels can be fitted with a non-street-legal Manthey Racing aero disc on track days.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In April, the city sent a strong message to joyriders by crushing more than 30 non-street legal dirt bikes and quads in a car compactor.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • If these vehicles haven't been heavily modified to meet safety standards, they can only be purchased as collectibles rather than street legal passenger cars.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 23 May 2026
  • Diego Lopez, who lives in downtown Hartford, is a team lead in Compass Peacebuilders, the city’s largest anti-street violence organization.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Rivians are outfitted with a humming sound for safety to alert passersby, which the Grey’s team disconnected for filming, so while the show’s silent ambulance isn’t exactly street legal, the model is a guide to what ambulances could be in the real world.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Dozens of traffic citations were issued and one felony arrest was made during an anti-street racing and reckless driving enforcement operation in Shasta County on Friday, California Highway Patrol officials announced Monday.
    — Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026

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