street
What is the Definition of street?
Noun:
- a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks)
- the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
- the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
- a situation offering opportunities
- people living or working on the same street
How can I use street in a sentence?
The brick he had touched quivered — it wriggled — in the middle, a small hole appeared — it grew wider and wider — a second later they were facing an archway large enough even for Hagrid, an archway onto a cobbled street that twisted and turned out of sight.
It grew steadily louder as they looked up and down the street for some sign of a headlight; it swelled to a roar as they both looked up at the sky — and a huge motorcycle fell out of the air and landed on the road in front of them.
He clicked it once, and twelve balls of light sped back to their street lamps so that Privet Drive glowed suddenly orange and he could make out a tabby cat slinking around the corner at the other end of the street.
He turned his head in every direction as they walked up the street, trying to look at everything at once: the shops, the things outside them, the people doing their shopping.
Twelve times he clicked the Put-Outer, until the only lights left on the whole street were two tiny pinpricks in the distance, which were the eyes of the cat watching him.
Other meanings of street (synonyms, cognates).
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