Example sentences for: streets

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

  • We're talking, after all, about a city government that--with an annual budget of about $5 billion and a shrinking population--runs schools that cannot shelter, much less educate its children; cannot mend its roads or keep its drinking water potable; cannot police its own police force, let alone its streets or jails; cannot care for the sick, or elderly, or homeless.

  • Standing at the depot at Main and Fremont streets, railroad officials auctioned 1200 lots they had subdivided from forty square blocks of desert scrub.

  • For time away from the beach, explore the narrow, winding medieval streets of the hilltop La Pigna quarter, leading up to the 17th-century sanctuary of Madonna della Costa.

  • A few streets away, the courthouse is another survivor of that era, with fine verandas and an impressive main staircase.

  • The streets of Amsterdam have many independent florists with imaginative ideas in fresh and dried flowers.


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