Main Street

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Recent Examples of Main Street The park is decked out in beautiful decorations all down Main Street, USA; Christmas songs are playing in the background, and the smell of cookies fills the air from the nearby bakery. Megan Dubois, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Nov. 2024 While on patrol, two police officers saw a GMC Yukon SUV fail to stop at a stop sign in the 100 block of South Main Street in central Ukiah shortly after 1:20 a.m. Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024 Two factions of the House Republican conference that have often been at odds with one another – the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and the more moderate Main Street Caucus – have agreed to a rule change that could protect Johnson from an insurgent push to topple him. Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024 Police closed Market Street from Main Street to Beale Street during the investigation. Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for Main Street 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Main Street
Noun
  • Lasting between two-and-a-half to three hours on average, Road Raves weave through a network of bike lanes and side streets, with brief stops at the key sites connected to the theme of the day’s route, Grosspietsch said.
    Sylvan Lebrun, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The venue, a downtown Manhattan club on a side street thronged with everyone from movie stars to wannabes hoping to gain entry to the party that was still raging at 3 a.m., had been at capacity since midnight.
    Amy DuBois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Inditex remains ahead of its global high street rival H&M, which has seen revenues flat in recent quarters.
    Rhonda Richford, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Simply walk along Elizabeth Street away from the coach station and the transformation from urban streets to Belgravia’s pretty village high street takes just a couple of blocks.
    Michele Robson, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Taking secondary roads with lower speed limits or postponing travel during squall warnings are advised.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Steward’s walk was the real deal: a four-hour amble along secondary roads past farmsteads and olive groves, the undulating terrain fanning out around us on all sides.
    Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • On a side road, where hundreds of attendees parked their cars, a Tesla cybertruck sported two Trump flags on the back.
    Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Near the Tennessee state line, crews were finally starting to reach side roads after clearing the main roads winding through switchbacks, but that brought a new set of challenges.
    Jeff Amy, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024

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“Main Street.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Main%20Street. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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