How to use "streets" in a sentence

From the dirty streets, dark passages and slum houses of Whitechapel hundreds of people went to watch the fire

The poorest lived in the streets and slept in doorways.

So she walked around the wet, cold streets hoping to earn something

The streets were dark, gloomy and dangerous.

Mary Ann Nichols was still walking the streets when her friend Ellen Holland saw her at 2.30 a.m

But her taste for alcohol dominated her life, and eventually she had to walk the streets as a prostitute.

It was a busy morning, with a lot of people already in the streets or getting up, and heavy traffic for the market

And he escaped through the streets like a phantom.

There were also three plain-clothes detectives on the streets that night

At the time of the murder they were only a few streets away from Mitre Square

Immediately after the discovery of the murder the streets were full of policemen

But the discovery of the apron shows that the killer was out in the streets at some time between 2.20 and 2.55 36 to 71 minutes after Watkins discovered the body

He was a reliable, kind man who did not want Mary to go out on the streets

When Barnett left at about 8 p.m., Mary knew she had to go out into the streets to earn some money

After the murders in Berner Street and Mitre Square the streets were too dangerous for the Ripper, which explains why he did not kill in October

People discussed it in the streets and large crowds visited Buck's Row on September 4th

On September 8th thousands of frightened people were out in the streets

But in Whitechapel the pubs were empty, and there were only policemen and vagabonds in the dark streets

'Something about a dangerous stranger walking the streets?' he asked with an amused smile.

'Without us, she'd be living on the streets.'

If I don't pay, my little girl will lose her home and be thrown out on to the streets

Entertainers and traders from Paris set up their stalls in the streets, and business at the Thenardiers' inn was very good

There was a full moon, and this pleased Valjean as he moved quickly along the narrow streets

He became like a homeless dog, wandering the streets in a mood of dark despair

Enjolras and his other friends tried to cheer him up by taking him to exciting places, but these expeditions always ended in the same way: Marius would leave the group and walk around the streets of Paris unhappily on his own.

I see you on the stairs, and I see you walking around the streets, looking so sad and alone.'

Putting them in his jacket pocket, he went out and continued to wander aimlessly around the streets, noticing only occasionally the strange atmosphere of excitement that was growing in the town

Neither could he understand the concept of freedom of speech, and he often sent soldiers into the streets to attack people who were making public protests.

Marius pushed his way through the crowds of frightened, murmuring people that filled the streets until he reached the market area

Here, he found the unlit streets suddenly filled with soldiers

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

He walked in total darkness, the silence broken occasionally by the thunder of gun carriages and horses racing along the streets of Paris far above his head.

With Marius in the back seat, Valjean and Javert side by side in the front, the carriage drove off quickly through the dark and strangely empty streets of Paris.

Yes, outside the house the streets are silent

We drove slowly through the brightly lit streets towards the hotel

It was warm and the streets were busy

This boy in the station wagon was not the first that she had imagined was Danny; in recent weeks, she had seen her lost son in other cars, in schoolyards past which she had been driving, on public streets, in a movie theater.

He wheeled around another corner, and then another, trying to disappear from the men in the van long enough to leave them with so many choices of streets to follow that they would have to give up the chase in confusion

For the most part, Reno's streets were clean and dry in spite of a recent snowfall, though occasional patches of black ice waited for the unwary motorist

They walked to Harrah's Hotel along windy, neon-splashed streets

'There'll be a lot of people in the streets, so I think that you'll be all right

Maybe there was talk in the village streets, a new topic in the pubs - and here and there a messenger, or even an eye-witness of the later events, caused some excitement

At that time there was a strong feeling on the streets that the government should be blamed because they had not destroyed the Martians already.

All around him - in the rooms below, in the houses on each side and across the road, and all across London - people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath of the coming storm of fear blew through the streets

As my brother began to realize how serious the situation was, he returned quickly to his room, put all the money he had - about ten pounds - into his pockets and went out again into the streets.

Before dawn the Black Smoke was pouring through the streets of Richmond

The streets were horribly quiet

After that, the streets became clear of powder and I passed some white houses which were on fire

Beyond Fulham the streets were quiet again

In South Kensington the streets were clear of dead people and of black powder, and near there I first heard the howling

When I passed streets that ran to the north it grew louder, and then houses and buildings seemed to cut it off again

I lost my way among the streets, and soon saw down a long road, in the half-light of the early dawn, the curve of Primrose Hill

And as I looked at it, and realized that the shadows had been rolled back, and that people might still live in its streets, and that this dear city of mine might be once more alive and powerful again, I felt such emotion that I was very close to tears.

People who were still alive would start to return, and life would come back to the empty streets

My hosts tried to change my mind but at last, promising faithfully to return to them, I went out again into the streets that had lately been so dark and strange and empty.

I remember how bright that day seemed as I went sadly back to the little house in Woking - how busy the streets were, and how full of life

At night I see the black powder-darkening the silent streets, and the twisted bodies covered by it

I go to London and see the busy crowds in Fleet Street and the Strand, and it comes to my mind that they are just the ghosts of the past, walking the streets that I have seen silent and empty, spirits in a dead city

The women walked in the streets and broke windows