How to Use take to the streets in a Sentence
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Plans were immediately made to take to the streets again.
— New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021 -
The Heroes in a Half-shell take to the streets in this arcade-style action side-scroller inspired by the 1987 cartoon series.
— Richard Newby, Time, 27 Nov. 2022 -
Instagram implores Russians — against the background of these comments — to take to the streets.
— Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2022 -
On Sundays and holidays, Madrileños take to the streets of the Latina district, home to charming storefronts and the Rastro open-air market.
— Christian L. Wright, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022 -
She and Tikhanovskaya were also seen as emblematic of the pivotal role women played in the protests that saw hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets.
— Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2021 -
Galanter and others in the IT Army hope that by portraying the true horror of an ever-bloodier war, Russian citizens will be spurred to take to the streets in protest.
— Ally Markovich, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2022 -
Opposition politicians and civil society have denounced the takeover as a coup and called for supporters to take to the streets.
— Reuters, CNN, 10 May 2021 -
Those and other measures have prompted tens of thousands of Israelis to take to the streets in protest and elicited concerns from supporters of Israel in the United States.
— Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023 -
The pandemic had upended life, and the country’s racial reckoning prompted protesters to take to the streets in Portland and other cities around the world.
— Anne Branigin, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2022 -
After news of the arrests spread, the country’s main pro-democracy group and two political parties issued appeals to the Sudanese to take to the streets.
— NBC News, 25 Oct. 2021 -
New Braunfels residents may be able to take to the streets with their dune buggies should the road to approving city staff recommendations be smooth.
— Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2023 -
Despite a clampdown on activism, Russians have repeatedly proved willing to take to the streets to make their voices heard.
— Brian Grodsky, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2022 -
Other states, including California, have seen hundreds of health care workers take to the streets to protest vaccine mandates.
— Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2021 -
Trump’s calls for protest have been emphatic and repeated, but thus far there is little evidence that thousands of his supporters will take to the streets in the event of his arrest, let alone of anything on the scale of January 6.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023 -
Amini's death touched off huge protests against compulsory hjiab laws and other women's rights issues, and people have continued to take to the streets daily to demand an end to the Islamic Republic.
— Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
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