How to Use live on the street(s) in a Sentence

live on the street(s)

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  • Melinda didn’t want to live on the street, the younger Abukhdair said.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Thousands of New Yorkers live on the streets or in the subways.
    The Editors, National Review, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Kelly Cutrone just told them all that the show may happen live on the street instead of on the rooftop because of the weather.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Still, many homeless people continue to live on the street or in canyons and riverbeds.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
  • To live on the streets and go into people's houses and sleeping on mattresses on the floor?
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Those who decline an offer of an available bed, of which there are none now, would no longer be allowed to live on the street.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022
  • These are the people who live on the streets for years and are reluctant to seek medical care or stay in a shelter.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The culture in the city then was that homelessness, to the extent it was acknowledged, was a choice that people were making to live on the streets.
    Definition’, Curbed, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Papageorgiou, 51, who runs a Greek taverna on the other side of the Ahr with his brother and sister-in-law, didn’t live on the street.
    Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • Too many of our neighbors live on the streets or under other unsafe conditions.
    courant.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • And that policy, says Mayor Steve Miller, will have to take into account the wishes of the residents who live on the street whose name is proposed to be changed.
    Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 26 June 2020
  • He has not been officially identified, but he was known among others who live on the streets, Bolcer said.
    Bobby Caina Calvan and Ashraf Khalil, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Unlike in colder-weather states, most homeless people in California live on the streets, in cars and along rivers.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • That has caused thousands to be stranded in Mexico’s northern border cities, filling shelters and forcing many to live on the street.
    Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2021
  • With high temperatures expected to reach and stay in the high 90s every day this week, Birmingham is offering some respite for those who live on the street.
    Greg Garrison | Ggarrison@al.com, al, 13 June 2022
  • Raines, who runs the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz Potential attacks are a daily reality for those who live on the streets.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The public is very clearly in no mood for additional delays, and the pressure increases the closer a resident is to the places where people live on the streets.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Jeremy Pope plays a gay man who enlists in the Marines after being forced to live on the streets when his mother (Union) kicks him out because of his sexuality.
    Marc Malkin, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Already, men who live on the streets in Sacramento tend to die by age 49 or 50, said Erlenbusch, who runs the annual memorial service for the unhoused.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • For people experiencing homelessness who live on the streets, street medicine offers direct, on-the-spot care.
    Jim Vargas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The years-long struggle to rescue a troubled loved one is not unique in San Francisco, where thousands of people, many with mental illness or drug addiction, live on the streets.
    Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Anderson continued to live on the streets, spending his days in the library and his nights in the outdoor seating area of a restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The ease of getting and using drugs made the city a dangerous and sometimes deadly playground for people like her son. Vardanega started to live on the streets full-time when the Covid pandemic hit in 2020.
    Sara Sidner, CNN, 14 May 2023
  • Homeless Populations: Most homeless people in California live on the streets, in cars and along rivers.
    Eileen Guo, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • But those homeless numbers contain something even more tragic than our easy narratives of mental illness or drug use leading people to live on the streets.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The city and county have increased shelter beds and outreach services for homeless people, while the county has expanded mental health services available to all, but with a focus on people in need who live on the street.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Hundreds of people live on the street every single night that need supportive wraparound housing and certain stability in their lives.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
  • The difference is, Wheeldon is the Harbor Police Department’s homeless outreach officer, and his residents live on the street.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Other residents also questioned the favorability of residents who live on the streets that would get the sidewalks.
    cleveland, 20 July 2023
  • But for people experiencing homelessness who can't get one of the limited shelter beds in metro Phoenix and must live on the street, these programs are frustrating at best and devastating at worst.
    Jessica Boehm, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2021

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