side street

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Recent Examples of side street In January 1975, on a side street in New Haven, Conn., surrounded by the campus of Yale University, a small French restaurant featuring live music opened its doors, with an unlikely name — Toad’s Place. Thom Duffy, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2025 On a side street, Mr. Hernandez moved each koi into its own sturdy plastic bag of clean water, then packed them into boxes. Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 Find the parallel streets because where everyone's going is the touristy area, but the parallel streets and the side streets are where the locals have their businesses. Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025 Later that night, those new measures were visible, but at least two side streets leading to Bourbon did not appear to be fully sealed off and had only lightweight bicycle rack-style barricades. Laura Strickler, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for side street
Recent Examples of Synonyms for side street
Noun
  • Troopers later located the BMW on the side roads in Fairfield and were able to follow the vehicle from a distance.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The truck turned east off the highway onto a side road and was eventually pulled over by a deputy at the end of East Pine Street.
    Max Silverson, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Black ice is expected to form, especially on secondary roads and areas with runoff from melting snow.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • As of Tuesday morning, crews spread 1.8 million gallons of brine on hundreds of miles of interstates, highways and secondary roads, Stein said.
    Joe Marusak and, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Dressed in colorful costumes, dozens of children, and plenty of adults, representing Krewe de Prank and other local Mardi Gras krewes marched in a Mardi Gras parade Sunday that snaked through the streets of the West Side neighborhood in Kansas City.
    Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Everyone is almost always wearing berets and striped shirts, while extras roam the streets in mime makeup.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Low gas prices are expected to fuel high road traffic.
    Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2024

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“Side street.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/side%20street. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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