How to Use backstreet in a Sentence

backstreet

noun

• Wander the backstreets of the town, through the little cabins and past the french-speaking punks and their silent pit bulls.
  — Caro Clark, GQ, 25 Aug. 2017
• Walk down Omoide-yokocho (Memory Lane), a snaking backstreet just west of the tracks.
  — Brandon Presser, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2020
• Details of the project are being kept on a backstreet, but it can be described as a boy band reunion movie.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2023
• This narrow backstreet in Kadıköy, on the Asian side of Istanbul, teems with men's hairdressers.
  — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 15 Nov. 2021
• On the mezzanine of a tiny workshop in a narrow backstreet, a woman in her 20s is busy at a sewing machine.
  — Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
• That sometimes pushes women to seek out backstreet clinicians, with all of the risk that brings.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• On backstreets at this year’s fair, at least six cabins flew the Confederate flag.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Restaurants dotting the main drags and backstreets cover a huge number of global cuisines.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2017
• As a result, there have always been two Tel Avivs: the city of the locals, its pulsing backstreets packed with cafés and culture, and the city of tourists, confined to a string of beachfront chain hotels.
  — Debra Kamin, Town & Country, 8 Oct. 2015
• Multiple videos show the car veering directly at the mother and child while speeding the wrong way down a narrow backstreet with no sidewalks.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 3 June 2022
• Sebastián Hidalgo Children in color-coded aprons stream in and out of a building on a backstreet in Woodlawn.
  — Sebastián Hidalgo, Chicago Reader, 21 June 2018
• The morning market, operating from around 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. daily, is located in a mini-maze of alleys and backstreets near the center of town.
  — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2023
• There are also Roman ruins, gorgeous churches and backstreet tapas bars that don't feature English menus.
  — Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
• The artists' homes, mostly rustic, one-story structures painted white and oxblood, are scattered on backstreets or throughout the surrounding woodlands.
  — Gisela Williams, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• The artists' homes, mostly rustic, one-story structures painted white and oxblood, are scattered on backstreets or throughout the surrounding woodlands.
  — Gisela Williams, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
• Instead of risking dangerous backstreet abortions, some women have babies in secret and then dump them.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• Rather, the quiet industrial backstreet runs beside a row of warehouses near a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. yard.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
• As a writer and director Mr. Sollima is known for a gritty realism that captures the neon glitter, concrete and shadowy backstreets of cities.
  — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2020
• Chania, Crete, stands out for its colorful historic center that’s full of trendy shops, restaurants, and cafés housed in ancient Venetian architecture and tucked away among narrow backstreets.
  — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Within a few months, Giacomo from the backstreets of San Samuele was installed in an apartment in the senator’s palazzo, equipped with a servant, a private gondola, and a salary in perpetuity.
  — Clare Bucknell, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Fine and casual dining, museums, waterfront spots, artistic communities, and laneways, which are backstreets with shopping and plenty of places to eat and drink.
  — Nancy Trejos, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2017
• Intercut with Khuddoos’ progressive paranoia is a parallel tale about two boys who are bosom buddies and who prowl the backstreets together.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
• Behind a Mexican restaurant in San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood lies an industrial backstreet where people like to hang out after work.
  — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2022
• In 1946, one enterprising local, Ganga Bishan Agarwal, began selling the snack from a humble shop in a Bikaner backstreet.
  — Shalba Sarda, CNN, 11 Sep. 2022
• Ken Fallas, a Costa Rican architect who has worked in Seoul for the past eight years, watched stunned as a dozen or more unconscious partygoers were carried out from a narrow backstreet packed with youngsters dressed like movie characters.
  — Hyung-Jin Kim, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• Berger writes: Consider some of his later paintings and imagine, in the backstreet shop, water, froth, steam, gleaming metal, clouded mirrors, white bowls or basins in which soapy liquid is agitated by the barber’s brush and detritus deposited.
  — Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2017
• But contrary to popular perception, violations do not occur only on dingy backstreets.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2018
• Director Ceyda Torun uses modern technology — infrared GoPro cameras — to capture a cat's-eye view, though the humans who care for these little sunbathers and backstreet scrappers tend to resonate nearly as much as their feline counterparts.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024