Thesaurus results for MAIN STREET

Main Street

noun

Definition of Main Street

as in side street

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Recent Examples of Main Street Initially that was the reaction from some board members of the cemetery’s association that oversees Spring Grove, off Main Street in the city’s Northeast neighborhood. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026 Wentworth Cheswill died in 1817, and he is buried in Cheswell Graveyard on South Main Street in Newmarket, New Hampshire. — Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026 In recent days, detectives released surveillance photos and video from multiple shootings, including one near Main Street as crowds gathered June 21 and another later that night at a gas station, asking the public to help identify suspects. — ABC News, 2 July 2026 Further down the shoreline, Santa Monica’s Fourth of July Parade reversed its traditional route, beginning at Marine Street and traveling about nine-tenths of a mile north on Main Street to Pico Boulevard. — Daily News, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for Main Street

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Noun

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

Definition of side street

Noun

The Escape Game The modern high street has spent years searching for a convincing reason to make people stay longer.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Since a simple T-shirt on the high street can cost between $12 and $20, a single T-shirt sold at retail can bring in enough revenue for a major brand to buy nearly a kilogram of them at factory-floor prices.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 22 May 2026

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Video from the scene showed investigators methodically walking across freeway lanes looking for evidence as a river of morning commuters moved around the closure on side roads before getting back on the freeway.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
Residents feared those small streets would become side roads for drivers looking to avoid traffic on Mallard Creek Road.

— Desiree Mathurin April 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026

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