Main Street

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Recent Examples of Main Street Spend a quintessential small-town day moseying through the local shops and boutiques on historic Main Street. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025 The festival suggests bikers stay off the sidewalks, 11 Mile Road and Main Street. Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025 In the middle is Main Street, companies big and small hoping to benefit from artificial intelligence but paying more attention to the near-term impact of tariffs on their businesses. Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025 At its opening in December 1934, the 20,000-square-foot building at Main Street and Westport Road was said to be the then-largest drug store in the world. Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Main Street
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Main Street
Noun
  • Situated on a side street off the busy Magnificent Mile, the hotel feels protected from frenetic shoppers and commuters but is still just one block from Oak Street shopping.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Historic stone churches display rainbow flags and Black Lives Matter signs, and even the narrowest side streets find room for bike lanes.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The pattern has also left its mark on the high street.
    Natalie Hammond, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The last time might have been in a regional nightclub in the mid aughts, or weaving through a busy high street.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Thousands of miles of secondary roads are still paved this way today.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Black ice is expected to form, especially on secondary roads and areas with runoff from melting snow.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • How fast a vehicle can go from zero to 60 miles per hour is a bragging point for manufacturers trying to sell vehicles Motorists who access State Route 109, often from side roads from a growing number of home developments in Lebanon and Wilson County, are also taking note.
    Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • The driver is king: one hand on the wheel, eyes on the horizon, free to turn down that dusty side road on a whim.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025

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“Main Street.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Main%20Street. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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