Example sentences for: double-park

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

  • All of which brings us back to New York City's crackdown last week against people who double-park while their streets are being cleaned.

  • On my street, there's a guy who will double-park your car for you and then return it to curbside when the three-hour street-sweeping period is over.

  • (New York drivers will happily double-park, even while they're in their cars, rather than park a car too close to a fire hydrant, even though doing the latter will let traffic move smoothly.

  • Because residents are accustomed to double-parking on days when street-cleaning takes place--you double-park from 8 to 11 a.m., blocking in all the people who are parked legally--the crackdown was assailed as the effective criminalization of an accepted social custom.

  • Even in New York City, a place where sane people do not drive, incumbent Mayor Rudy Giuliani scored some points by taking on every country in the world over the issue of diplomats who double-park near the United Nations.


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