through street

American  

noun

1. a street along which the traffic has the right of way over vehicles entering or crossing at intersections.

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Etymology

Origin of through street

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

“This is insane,” he repeated as he walked through street after street of charred cars and homes reduced to nothing.

From Los Angeles Times

The artist uses the Constitution of India and its articles promising equality as the backdrop to the goddess while local actors enact the gap between the promise of the Constitution and reality through street theatre.

From BBC

“No one is going to pay their rent through street donations. But if our platform helps a person press into their housing search, their employment search, their pursuit of recovery, those types of things are a lot more impactful,” Kumar said.

From Seattle Times

He was elected president with the support of many voters who were eager to remove any traces of the dictatorship in the country’s governance through street protests.

From Washington Times

“It has been a true honor to bring these works into the collection,” says Oluremi C. Onabanjo, an associate curator at MoMA who organized the show, which encompasses a broad range of styles and textures, colors and gestures, working through street photography, documentary, and abstraction, landing in Yagazie Emezi’s photojournalistic images of the October 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, when young people called for ending police brutality and disbanding the unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

From New York Times