How to Use street corner in a Sentence
street corner
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In the weeks since the May 10 cleanup, The Republic returned to the street corner three times to try to find Martin but couldn’t.
—Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
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Then, at about 11:35 a.m. a third person was shot at a street corner in Queens, Kenny said.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 July 2023
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On Sunday morning, Williams was back at the street corner.
—Ruben Vivesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
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Less than a mile away, also in Queens, a 44-year-old man standing on a street corner was shot in the face, police said.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 8 July 2023
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Going out on the street corner and singing on Friday night on the corner of Broadway and Columbus by all the strip joints.
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 26 June 2023
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On a street corner of downtown Toronto in the wee hours of the morning is where the best conversations are bound to happen.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2023
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In her first episode, the justice helps out when Junior is upset that Alma always gets to the street corner first and gets to push the crosswalk button.
—Amy Amatangelo, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
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The second teen ran from around the street corner to ambush the couple, according to footage obtained by KTLA.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
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By the end of the day, her belongings — an electric scooter, a plush unicorn backpack, the plaid blanket — were piled high on a street corner two blocks away.
—Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2023
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The Wiz was the street corner hustler who flashed his gold chains, made big promises, betrayed people who trusted him, and never looked back.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2024
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The driver then accelerated and struck a man and woman at a street corner.
—Jill Lawless and Brian Melley, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2023
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Larkin figured out how to make the weekly, which was distributed for free on street corner stands, a thriving business.
—Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2024
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Bouncers usher small herds out the door, creating pools of people at each street corner.
—Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
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On the other side of town, a bearded young man stood on a busy street corner outside a shopping center and waved a large green-, white- and black-striped Palestinian flag.
—Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
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New York City will keep the convenience of late-night food delivery and bodegas on every street corner.
—Jiji Lee, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2023
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Coming to a street corner near you: a sleek new litter basket, the latest weapon in New York City’s generations-long war on trash.
—Dodai Stewart, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
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When sports betting was prohibited, the bookie on the street corner or the telephone line, was often hiding in plain sight.
—U.s. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2024
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The actual mural has three different viewpoints and utilizes the street corner it is placed on.
—Acsah Lemma, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
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There is no real relief from this unless you are reduced to panhandling on a street corner with a Dunkin Donuts cup looking for spare change.
—Jenna Reyes, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Feb. 2023
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There was this musician playing on a street corner, and people tossed coins into his guitar case.
—Sue D. Gelber, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
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One man is dead, and three others were injured after men on scooters allegedly opened fire on them at a street corner in the Bronx, police said Tuesday night.
—Victoria Arancio, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2024
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Elsewhere in the suite, Gary treats a street corner in Harlem like its own discrete ecosystem, paying close attention to how Black women inhabit the space.
—Yasmina Price, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
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Jerry Paiz recalled being taken aback by the stranger on the street corner inquiring about compassion.
—David Begnaud, CBS News, 30 June 2023
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If a woman stood on a street corner across from Congress holding a sign calling for the genocide of Jews, government officials could take no action against her.
—David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
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Just north of the Champs-Élysées on a rounded street corner sits a stone facade building that blends into the classic Parisian scenery and stands out just enough with its contemporary curved-glass windows and leafy balconies.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2024
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In one, filmed outside the headquarters of the Southern District command, a worker wearing a yellow vest hurriedly sweeps a street corner.
—Dalton Bennett, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
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The intense humidity didn’t deter the locals from eating bowls of piping hot phở on every street corner, and tiny food stalls selling bánh mì and bún chả lined every block.
—Sophie Mendel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023
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Dallas Police Department officers and their patrol cars lit with blue and red lights mark every other street corner.
—Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
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The city arranged an event on a street corner in an area with typically low voter turnout to showcase the results of $12 million for maintaining and expanding Milwaukee’s tree canopy.
—Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 1 May 2024
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In a small, God-fearing church on a Harlem street corner, pastor Margaret Anderson is confronted with her complicated past.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 30 Jan. 2024
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