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noun

ˈstrēt How to pronounce street (audio)
Definition of streetnext
as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel going the wrong way on a one-way street

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adjective

as in frowzy

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Recent Examples of street
Noun
Later, one agent appears to get frustrated with Abdalla for being in the street and not on the sidewalk. — Chelsea Bailey, Gloria Pazmino and Taylor Galgano, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025 While the residents hadn’t received direct communication from the city before his death, city officials were implementing a study to assess putting speed prevention measures on the street. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Earlier this month, the Georgia Department of Public Safety coordinated with state and local law enforcement agencies for the 40th wave of its crime suppression and anti-street racing initiative. — John Spink, ajc, 24 Feb. 2022 The tree removal is part of a multi-street paving program planned by the city. — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021 See All Example Sentences for street
Recent Examples of Synonyms for street
  1. road
  2. highway
  3. grungy
  4. thoroughfare
  5. unkempt
  6. freeway
  7. slovenly
  8. boulevard
Noun
  • Currently, the road is open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to protect seal pups and minimize human disturbance, as this is when National Park Service staff is present to monitor the area.
    — Emese Maczko, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • His jump into a world tour comes as no surprise — Seavey has been anxious to hit the road.
    — Kristen Wisneski, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of road
Noun
  • Up the narrow state highways, the landscape shifts to farmland, with grazing cattle and tall stalks of green.
    — Mariah Tyler, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Several local roads and highways, including the Sunrise Highway, were closed as firefighters battled the blazes.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of highway
Adjective
  • Slouchy fits with grungy washes were embellished with baubles, distressing and color contrasting patchwork.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Mar. 2025
  • For the show, the form-fitting dress with a grungy touch checked all of her boxes.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of grungy
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  • The ambient pop number was inspired by the couple’s first date on Los Angeles’ famed thoroughfare Sunset Blvd.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
  • That means a return to Sacramento’s freeways, thoroughfares and surface streets that funnel them there.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of thoroughfare
Adjective
  • Most wine lovers know that the word Sauvignon comes from the French word sauvage and the word blanc simply means white, but most people don’t know the reason is because when untrained vines of the variety have a distinctly unkempt appearance.
    — Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
  • But, as in these United States, the key question remains whether creeping totalitarianism — from the left and the right — will squeeze everyday people out of their inalienable right to just be their sometimes obnoxious, unkempt, idiosyncratic selves.
    — Ed Wallace, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
Definition of unkempt
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  • Bikes that belong in this nascent category are mainly focused on urban riding, and some (but not all) can also achieve freeway speeds for short bursts.
    — William Roberson, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Authorities were trying to serve the warrant in connection with a freeway shooting two months earlier on a Sacramento County freeway, according to court documents.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of freeway
Adjective
  • Slough House is headed by the slovenly, flatulent, and frequently intoxicated Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), who routinely heaps verbal abuse on his staff but is nonetheless a brilliant spymaster in his own smelly way.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Corruption within the organization, after all, is as much a part of the show as Jackson Lamb’s slovenly habits and horrible diet.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of slovenly
Noun
  • In the decades that followed, hordes of white college students flocked to The Strip, the stretch of A1A between Las Olas and Sunrise boulevards, and piled into motels.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
  • This grand avenue was modeled after 19th-century French engineer Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s Parisian boulevards, and it’s lined with a roll call of ornate late 19th and early 20th-century architecture, a historic neighborhood second to none in the United States.
    — Everett Potter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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