STREET in a Sentence
Learn STREET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
388 example sentences for STREET, such as:
1. The ball rolled into the street.
2. The street runs through the town.
3. The bank is just across the street.
4. Borrow beckoned to me from across the street.
5. There is no access to the street through that door.
2. The street runs through the town.
3. The bank is just across the street.
4. Borrow beckoned to me from across the street.
5. There is no access to the street through that door.
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Meanings and Examples of STREET
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street
n. the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
n. a situation offering opportunities
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varnum's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate.
2 He stood there a moment, breathing quickly, and looking up and down the street, in which not another figure moved.
3 The villagers, being afoot, were the first to climb the slope to the main street, while the country neighbours packed themselves more slowly into the sleighs under the shed.
4 The bitter weather had driven every one indoors and Ethan had the long rural street to himself.
5 Eady and his assistant were both "down street," and young Denis, who seldom deigned to take their place, was lounging by the stove with a knot of the golden youth of Starkfield.
6 Along the main street lights had begun to shine from the house-fronts and stray figures were turning in here and there at the gates.
7 As they slowly made their way through the mudholes of the town's chief street, she noted with interest all the new buildings and the new faces.
8 As they progressed down the street, through the sucking mud, Scarlett bubbled over with questions and Peter answered them, pointing here and there with his whip, proud to display his knowledge.
9 The carriage plowed its way farther and halted for a moment to permit two ladies with baskets of bandages on their arms to pick precarious passages across the sloppy street on stepping stones.
10 At the same moment, Scarlett's eye was caught by a figure on the sidewalk in a brightly colored dress--too bright for street wear-- covered by a Paisley shawl with fringes to the heels.
11 There was a ruffle of drums from the street below, the tramp of feet, the admiring cries of coachmen.
12 She turned and tossed on the hot pillow until a noise far up the quiet street reached her ears.
13 The street with its over-arching trees was softly, deeply black under a dim star-studded sky.
14 Belle Watling was the red-haired woman she had seen on the street the first day she came to Atlanta and by now, she was easily the most notorious woman in town.
15 She was seldom seen on Peachtree Street or in any nice neighborhood, but when she did appear respectable women made haste to cross the street to remove themselves from her vicinity.
Example Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
1 It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street.
2 There is no access to the street through that door.
3 It is an act of kindness/a kind act to help a blind man across the street.
4 The bank is just across the street.
5 Borrow beckoned to me from across the street.
6 She actually condescended to say hello to me in the street today.
7 The street is named after the famous South African leader, Nelson Mandela.
8 One barking dog sets all street a-barking.
9 They're introducing CCTV cameras in an attempt to cut street crime in the area.
10 By the street of “Bye-and-bye” one arrives at the house of “Never”.
11 Two small boys and a dog comprised the street entertainer's only audience.
12 I crossed the street to avoid meeting him, but he saw me and came running towards me.
13 The ball rolled into the street.
14 He rushed out of the bar and chundered in the street.
15 The street runs through the town.