STREET in a Sentence

Learn STREET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

388 example sentences for STREET, such as:

1. The high street banks continue to prosper.
2. He crossed the street and walked alongside Central Park.
3. A long cobbled street bisects the town from east to west.
4. Each house in the street has its own distinctive character.
5. Two old boys tarried on the street corner discussing cattle.

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 Meanings and Examples of STREET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
street
 n.  a road in a city or town, usually with buildings along one or both sides
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varnum's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  He stood there a moment, breathing quickly, and looking up and down the street, in which not another figure moved.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
3  The villagers, being afoot, were the first to climb the slope to the main street, while the country neighbours packed themselves more slowly into the sleighs under the shed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
4  The bitter weather had driven every one indoors and Ethan had the long rural street to himself.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  Eady and his assistant were both "down street," and young Denis, who seldom deigned to take their place, was lounging by the stove with a knot of the golden youth of Starkfield.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
6  Along the main street lights had begun to shine from the house-fronts and stray figures were turning in here and there at the gates.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  As they slowly made their way through the mudholes of the town's chief street, she noted with interest all the new buildings and the new faces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  As they progressed down the street, through the sucking mud, Scarlett bubbled over with questions and Peter answered them, pointing here and there with his whip, proud to display his knowledge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The carriage plowed its way farther and halted for a moment to permit two ladies with baskets of bandages on their arms to pick precarious passages across the sloppy street on stepping stones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  At the same moment, Scarlett's eye was caught by a figure on the sidewalk in a brightly colored dress--too bright for street wear-- covered by a Paisley shawl with fringes to the heels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  There was a ruffle of drums from the street below, the tramp of feet, the admiring cries of coachmen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  She turned and tossed on the hot pillow until a noise far up the quiet street reached her ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  The street with its over-arching trees was softly, deeply black under a dim star-studded sky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  Belle Watling was the red-haired woman she had seen on the street the first day she came to Atlanta and by now, she was easily the most notorious woman in town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  She was seldom seen on Peachtree Street or in any nice neighborhood, but when she did appear respectable women made haste to cross the street to remove themselves from her vicinity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
16  In some areas, drug dealers openly ply their trade on street corners.
17  Drugs have been seized with a street value of two million dollars.
18  Rubbishy commercials and harmful programmes contribute to the rise in violence and crime in the street.
19  The drains flooded and water overflowed down the main street.
20  He zoomed through junctions without stopping and sped the wrong way down a one-way street.
21  A long cobbled street bisects the town from east to west.
22  The police blocked off the street where the gunman was hiding.
23  I saw a man shouting at a driver whose car was blocking the street.
24  Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
25  The camp is a great way of getting kids off the street and keeping them out of trouble.
26  He crossed the street and walked alongside Central Park.
27  Each house in the street has its own distinctive character.
28  The charity is having a street collection in aid of the local hospital.
29  The high street banks continue to prosper.
30  Two old boys tarried on the street corner discussing cattle.