Word Finder - street

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A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

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Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.

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A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

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I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

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The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.

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The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.

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An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.

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I got some pot cheap on the street.

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Streetwise slang.

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A great distance.

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He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.

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Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

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Living in the streets.

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a street cat; a street urchin

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(urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.

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To build or equip with streets.

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To eject; to throw onto the streets.

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(by extension) To heavily defeat.

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To go on sale.

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To proselytize in public.

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Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

He walked up the street to the next block.

She looked up and down the street.

The whole street was full of clouds of black smoke.

Lots of the folks on the street had poor teeth and most of their clothes were practically rags.

She walked up the street to a better vantage point, curious to see what he hit.

You park on the street where you can find a place.

She saw the flash of a street lamp.

Stay away from the southeast and northwest street corners.

Once on the street, Dean put up a halting hand.

There was no street sign, but according to the map, it had to be the correct road.

The first considerable house in Southport (an inn for the reception of sea-bathers) was built in 1791, and soon after other houses were erected on the site now known as Lord Street, but the population in 1809 was only loo.

It was once the western tower of the church of St Eloi, from which it is now separated by a street.

Lamplighters used to light street lamps every night, before the accursed electricity came along.

He climbed in, maneuvering it through the crowded street.

Shivering, she pulled out her phone to call her father as she made her way towards the street.

Her headache was now a migraine, and she shielded her eyes against the light from the street that filtered past her honeycomb blinds.

The town dates from the beginning of the r 7th century, and the older part consists of a flagged causeway called Commercial Street, running for 1 m.

Dean planned to send a patrol car by later to pick up some clothes but his trip home passed within a block of Parsons Street and on an impulse, he drove by the building.

In five minutes, the hot blonde from down the street would jog by.

There may be seen the native dances and break-neck horse-racesthe riders bareback - through the main street of the village.

Instead of a small house between a street and a stable-yard, I began to occupy a spacious and convenient mansion, connected on the north side with the city, and open on the south to a beautiful and boundless horizon.

Sofia stuffed Dr. Bylun's paper into her empty cup, tossed it, and joined the onlookers lining the street.

He strolled up to them as if he was on a city street, not alone in the Colorado woods.

Taran led her down a street lined with small inns before spotting the one marked as Memon said.

Hilden's gruff voice broke into her thoughts as he trotted out of the hold into the street.

She breathed deeply and trailed him through the alley to the main street.

He waited until he reached the street outside and let loose a roar of emotion.

A full head and shoulders taller than other kids his age, he had lost the ability to work with the rest of the street urchins.

His eyes spotted the form he sought, and he wove his way through the crowd, trailing her down a quiet side street.

She was in her mid-teens with a silver A charm on her necklace that reflected the yellow street light.

Jessi watched her cousin walk away then break into a run as she crossed the street and headed towards the bookstore.

He became king of Northumbria and extended his territories as far as Watling Street.

The site was five acres, and the building is described in the letters patent " as a fitting and noble college mansion in honour of the most glorious Virgin Mary and St Bernard in Northgates Street outside the Northgate of Oxford."

To mitigate a steep ascent, a central carriage-way, 200 yds, long, is cut along the main street to a depth of 15 ft., the opposite terraces being connected by a bridge.

The broad Oxford road forms its picturesque main street.

The principal thoroughfare is comprised in Prince's Street and George Street, running straight from S.W.

The parish church of Greenwich, in Church Street, is dedicated to St Alphege, archbishop, who was martyred here by the Danes in 1012.

It is served by the Morris & Essex division of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway and by the Orange branch of the Erie (the former having three stations in the city - Grove Street, East Orange and Brick Church), and is connected with Newark, Orange and West Orange by electric line.

In July 1807 another British force of eight thousand men under General Whitelock endeavoured to regain possession of Buenos Aires, but strenuous preparations had been made for resistance, and after fierce street fighting the invading army, after suffering severe losses, was compelled to capitulate.

Two days of desultory street fighting ensued, during which the fleet began to bombard the city, but was compelled to desist by the interference of foreign men-of-war, on the ground that the bombardment was.

The quaint architecture of the houses, many of which present their curious and handsome gables to the street, gives Stralsund an interesting and old-fashioned appearance.

Of the streets, the best and widest is a long street which is still called the Street of the Knights.

Upon its final acceptance as the capital, there was some activity in land speculation, but Indianapolis had only 600 inhabitants and a single street when the seat of government was removed thither in 1824.

The streets are lighted with electricity; and there are electric street railways and telephones in the city.

At right angles to this street lanes ascend the hill-side to Hillhead, where the more modern structures and villas have been built.

Occupying the southern slopes of a hill on the left bank of the Earn, here crossed by a bridge, it practically consists of a main street, with narrower streets branching off at right angles.

A Runic sculptured stone, believed to be of the 8th century, and the old town cross stand in High Street, but the great cattle fair, for which Crieff was once famous, was removed to Falkirk in 1770.

Except at the shafts, which were sunk on proposed station sites, there was no interference with the surface of the streets or with street traffic during construction.

In 1893 the construction was completed in Budapest of an underground railway with a thin, flat roof, consisting of steel beams set close together, with small longitudinal jack arches between them, the street pavement .

This type has the advantage of economy in first construction, there being the minimum amount of material to be excavated, and no interference during construction with street traffic or subsurface structures; it has, however, the disadvantage of the cost of o p eration of lifts at the stations.