: a street joining and often terminated by a main thoroughfare
Examples of side street in a Sentence
We live on a quiet side street.
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This is Chicago, which has hundreds of miles of side streets that should be used for safe bike routes.—Chicago Tribune,
5 July 2026 The Waymo was clean and quiet, and avoided a congested highway by navigating through side streets and frontage roads.—
Stephen Witt,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026 The second car drives onto a side street, stays there for just under two minutes, with the driver even getting out for a few seconds, before taking off.—
Mike Darnay,
CBS News,
26 June 2026 The car takes the first right onto a much darker side street.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for side street