side street
a street leading away from a main street; an unimportant street or one carrying but little traffic.
Origin of side street
1- Compare back street.
Words Nearby side street
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How to use side street in a sentence
If you can’t find a decent swell near the pier, head south along Seacoast Drive, where breaks can be found at the end of every side street.
She has found herself padding the commute with extra turns or purposeless drives down side streets — anything to stretch out the time alone.
The stimulus relieved short-term pain, but eviction’s impact is a long haul | Kyle Swenson | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostSo drivers make their own — sometimes dangerous — shortcuts down side streets and narrow alleys.
What the Census Taught Me About the NIMBY vs. YIMBY Debate | Paul Krueger | December 14, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoSurely, there’s little risk of getting busted on our side street on a Sunday just before lunch.
Why earnings season could be the next big lift for stocks | Bernhard Warner | October 12, 2020 | FortuneA parklet in Boston being built on a side street near 506 Park Drive From Tampa to Tulsa, Seattle to Syracuse and Brooklyn to Burlington, cities are embracing parklets like never before.
The Mail says that CCTV shows the taxi pulled into the path of the motorcade from a side street.
Prince Harry's High Speed Crash Drama Prompts Terror Alert | Tom Sykes | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe barracks is a squat building surrounded by sandbags on a side street near the city center.
Ukraine’s Pro-Putin Rebels Prepare for a Last Stand | David Patrikarakos | July 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey would have had better luck with a normal poster on the side street behind the square.
Russell Crowe Twitter Stalks The Pope To Get Noah Screening | Barbie Latza Nadeau | March 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBrigitte Höss lives quietly on a leafy side street in Northern Virginia.
The Week’s Best Longreads for September 14, 2013 | David Sessions | September 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe parade took a right onto a side street, and everyone packed in a little closer, so the parade slowed down a bit.
New Orleans Shooting: I Saw the Mother’s Day Parade Gunman | Jarratt Pytell | May 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe quite beamed with welcome, and they disentangled themselves into a side street, where there were empty posts.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonMrs. Prentice had run into a quiet side street, not two blocks from the cottage at the foot of Whiffle Street.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonHe caught a down car and got out just as the first prowl car came sirening its way into the side street curb.
As he followed him on uptown, down his side-street, Lamb had a curious sense of elation.
He turned into a side street, at the corner of which was a broken lamp bracket used for hanging a man not a week ago.
The Light That Lures | Percy Brebner
British Dictionary definitions for side street
a minor or unimportant street, esp one leading off a main thoroughfare
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with side street
A minor thoroughfare that carries little traffic, as in Our favorite hotel is on a quiet little side street. The side in this idiom means “off to one side, away from the main street.” [c. 1600] Also see back street.
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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