Example sentences for: backstreets

How can you use “backstreets” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Throughout the city, crumbling houses three and four stories tall, somehow still standing, line backstreets where children play stickball and their parents and grandparents hover around doorstoops.

  • You might still get lost in this maze of backstreets, reminiscent of a North African souk, but much of it has been renovated, tastefully, into the Yuyuan Shopping Center.

  • Their poorly stocked shops, dusty backstreets, and primitive transport provide Varadero’s package tourists with a convenient insight into everyday Cuban life before they’re whisked back to their hotels.

  • The old backstreets here are full of character but seldom visited by tourists.

  • Wandering the backstreets in the old lake district north of Beihai Park, these pedicab caravans make stops at the ancient Drum Tower for panoramic views, at Prince Gong’s Palace (Gongwangfu) for tea and sometimes opera in a lavish grand Ming Dynasty estate, and at a typical courtyard home in a hutong neighborhood for a chance to meet and talk with Beijing residents.


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