off-street

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adjective

located away from a streetoff-street parking

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Words nearby off-street

off someone's feet, off someone's hands, off-speed, offspring, offstage, off-street, off stump, offtake, off the air, off the beam, off the beaten track

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How to use off-street in a sentence

The traffic agent was kind enough to direct Sarah discreetly to a closed-off street running behind the arena.
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There was no fire, there was no light, only the faint shimmer of a far-off street lamp brought a perception of the darkness.
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