How to use "street" in a sentence

'Why don't you wait for me in that bar across the street? Then I'll take you to my place.'

One of the poorest areas in London, Whitechapel did not have many street lamps

The street had only one gas lamp

Hanbury Street is a long street that goes from Commercial Street to Baker's Row, not far from Buck's Row

Suddenly the man pulled the woman into the street and threw her down on to the pavement

Schwartz did not want any trouble so he crossed to the other side of the street

He went with her to the street door and asked her to shut it when she left.

When a man called Brennan began to shout about the murders in a pub in Camberwell, the customers ran out into the street and Brennan was soon arrested

One winter's evening, a toothless woman with a grey face and flowers in her hair was arrested for attacking a man in the street

'She attacked a man in the street, a respectable citizen

'But I saw what happened in the street just now,' M

She was cold and hungry as she dragged the bucket behind her along the crowded street, but she could not resist stopping in front of one of the stalls

That evening, he went downstairs and looked up and down the street

In the light of a lamp above a doorway, he saw four men moving along the street in his direction

Every few minutes, he stopped in the shadows of a doorway or at the corner of a street to look back

Finally he left the Gardens in the mad hope of seeing her in the street, but instead he met Enjolras, who invited him to a meal.

One cold but sunny afternoon in February, Marius was walking along the street when two young girls dressed in rags ran into him

This was why he had failed to recognize the two daughters when they had run into him on the street

Leblanc and 'Ursula' out of the door and, after a few minutes' indecision, Marius jumped down from the cupboard and ran out into the street

'Now, you two must go and keep guard in the street, one by the gate, one at the street corner.'

Finally, there was the sound of horses in the street outside and, moments later, the door to the room was thrown open.

With those words he threw the metal bar out of the window into the street below.

The rope ladder was swinging gently above the empty street.

It was a small house in a back street, with a large, wild garden

The moonlit garden and the street beyond it were completely empty

'Who said you had to go away? You left me - your grandfather! - to join in those street protests against the government, I suppose

Suddenly he heard a voice calling through the trees from the street.

Marius ran to the gate and was just in time to see the figure of Eponine, Thenardier's daughter, disappearing into the shadows at the end of the street.

As soon as the fighting started, Enjolras and several of his friends started to build a barricade outside the Corinth wine shop in the rue de la Chanvrerie, a small street surrounded by dark alleys in the market district of Paris

Enjolras had been joined by many strangers as he and his friends had run shouting along the street

There were several street children, excited by the sound of battle, who also joined them

The barricades were finished in less than an hour and, with the sound of drums in the city growing louder, Enjolras brought a table out into the street and sat down with his friends for a drink.

The street was lit with a sudden flash of light and filled with the thunder of gunfire.

Within seconds, the soldiers had left the barricade, leaving their dead and wounded behind, and were running into the darkness at the far end of the street.

While the soldiers waited at the far end of the street for further orders, and the rebels removed dead bodies from the barricade and took care of the wounded, Marius walked around the stronghold in a kind of dream

Looking up, he saw a pale-faced boy, dressed in rags, studying the numbers of the houses in the street.

Seeing Valjean on his doorstep, the boy stopped and asked, 'Do you live in this street?'

The sky grew lighter, but not a door or window was open in the street

Sounds of chains and of heavy wheels moving along the stone streets could be heard, and then soldiers came into view at the end of the street, pulling a large cannon

More soldiers moved into position at the end of the street, behind the cannon, and started to build a low wall with pieces of broken stone

Both cannons fired together, accompanied by gunfire from soldiers at the end of the street and on the rooftops

But the street was empty; there was no one there.

She did not realize that, every evening, Valjean would walk slowly from his house until he reached the corner of the street where she lived

You know you are still in your bed, still in your house, still in your quiet street in the north of Manchester

A dog outside in the street? The alarm of a car? A baby crying in the next house?

You can imagine the street outside: twenty terraced houses stretching down the road

The street is silent and the house is too

And so he watches the street and the small redbrick houses

She can see the stairs to the street, and she wants to walk to them, but she feels so weak

"What was that about?" asked Niki, as they hurried on down the street

She turned and ran down the street to her apartment block, and soon she was in the dry and rushing upward in the elevator

Sala did as the woman had said: she turned and walked down the street

But then she saw something yellow on the crowded street ahead: the woman's bag

They took the street that led toward the meat-growing laboratory

The sulfur-yellow light from the street lamps failed to reach all the way across the lawn

Hundred-foot-long signs-five - hundred-foot-long signs - towered five or even ten stories above the street, glittering, winking, thousands of miles of bright glass tubing filled with glowing gas, blinking, swirling, hundreds of thousands of bulbs, spelling out hotel names, forming pictures with light

Hundreds of cars progressed sluggishly through the busy street, taxicabs darting in and out, recklessly seeking any small advantage

They went outside and strolled down the street, past the partygoers' cars, which ran the gamut from Rolls-Royces to Range Rovers.

As he and Elliot ambled along the sun-splashed street, Kennebeck mulled over the problem in silence for almost a minute

By the time, Elliot reached the front door and rushed out of the house, Bob had run the length of the driveway and crossed the street

Elliot got to the street in time to watch the Chevy pull away, tires squealing, engine roaring.

Tina got up from the bed, went to the window, and gazed at the quiet street, the palms, the olive trees.

"Into the street!" Elliot urged.

The flagstone walk that led across her front lawn seemed to be one of those treadmill pathways in a dream, stretching out farther in front of her the harder that she ran, but at last, she reached the end of it and dashed into the street

Along the street, people came out of their houses, seeking the source of the explosion

"We've got to get off the street and out of sight," Elliot said.

He glanced outside, up the street

Elliot had the awful feeling that this guy would reach for the button Tina had pushed less than a minute ago, and that the garage door would lift just as the black van was rolling slowly by in the street.

Any amusement he felt at the way they had handled Polumby evaporated instantly as he reversed warily out of sanctuary, down the driveway, and into the street

Tina glanced both ways along the street as Elliot swung the car out of the driveway

As he drove from one residential street to another, steadily heading away from the smoke, working toward a major thoroughfare, Elliot expected to encounter the black van at every intersection.

Each time he glanced at her, she was either crouched forward, squinting at every new street they entered, or twisted halfway around in her seat, looking out the rear window

Elliot drove behind the restaurant and tucked the Mercedes into a slot in the deepest shadows, between a Toyota Celica and a small motor home, where it could not be seen from the street.

Beyond the cemetery, he turned left, into a residential street

Pale light from a street lamp pierced the windshield, revealing a hard-edged determination in her face, steely resolution in her blue eyes.

They followed their own footprints out of the cemetery, to the quiet residential street where the rented Chevrolet was parked in the wan light of the street lamp.

Tires squealing, he pulled the Chevy away from the curb, into the street.

Tina raised her head, glanced at the empty street behind them, then looked at Elliot

You drive on down the street, but not too fast

Give them a chance to see you when they turn into the street

He swung right at the intersection and stopped in the middle of the new street.

Crouching beside one of those bushes, huddling in the shadows just beyond the circle of frosty light from a nearby street lamp, he pulled the pistol out of his coat pocket while Tina drove away.

It spun across the street, jumped the curb, crashed through a hedge, destroyed a plaster birdbath, and came to rest in the middle of a snow-blanketed lawn.

But where do you expect to find a hypnotist? The last time I looked, they weren't setting up shops on street corners."

One day he is at a street market near the Colosseum

Natalie sees some people in the street

Every day, he plays his guitar on the street.

Cal plays his guitar on the street that morning.

Later, two policemen see Rod on the street.

Mrs Protheroe said that she had last seen her husband at about a quarter to six when they parted in the village street

I hurried down the village street

Soldiers were telling people to leave and helping them to load carts in the main street

Soon after that the police arrived and began to move the crowd out of the station, and my brother went out into the street again.

He went to bed a little after midnight and was woken in the early hours of Monday morning by the sound of knocking on doors, feet running in the street, distant drumming and the ringing of bells

Up and down the street other windows were opening and people were shouting questions

There was a noise of doors opening, and the lights went on in window after window in the houses across the street.

A closed carriage came up the street, quickly followed by a number of other fast-moving vehicles

And then men selling unusually early newspapers came shouting into the street:

Unable to learn what was happening from his window, my brother went down and out into the street, just as the sky turned pink with the dawn

People ran to the railway stations, to the boats on the Thames, and hurried by even street that went north or east

When I had last seen this part of Sheen, it had been a street of comfortable white and red houses

The churches were giving out bread sent to us by the French government, and tired-looking policemen stood at the corners of every street.

In one year, he had one hundred and fourteen street fights with other dogs

When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it

The cat was walking slowly across the street

It was a clever street cat.

He looked at the wet street

In the street, I noticed two men following me

Fourth-wave feminism uses social media to talk about the problem of harassment in the street and at work