Collocations for "street"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "street" in context.
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street
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [main, high, pedestrian, residential, shopping, market] street
- a [narrow, long, short, wide] street
- a [busy, quiet, bustling] street
- walk [down, up, along] the street
- the children were [playing, cycling, skating] in the street
- [our house is, we live] on the next street
- there's a [space, supermarket] across the street (from)
- crossed the street at the [light, corner]
- turn [left, right] at the next street
- the next street on the [left, right]
- just missed my street
- on the [corner, side] of the street
- [trees, hedges] [dotted, lined] the street
- the street was [dotted] with [trees]
- kicked [him, her husband] out on the street
- is [living on, from] the street
- what's the word on the street?
- the word on the street is
- walk the streets (at night)
- [that's, that sounds] right up my street
- street [parking, signs, maps, access]
- street [language, clothes, musicians, markets, cars]
- has (a lot of) street smarts
- the street [value, price] of [drugs, cocaine, heroin]
'street' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
address
- adjacent
- alley
- alternatively
- ample
- approach
- attack
- avenue
- bakery
- balcony
- banner
- bay
- bed
- beech
- beg
- bend
- between
- birch
- block
- bob
- booklet
- bowl
- brawling
- bustling
- busy
- cable
- cafeteria
- catch
- chain
- chase
- chemist
- cherry
- chestnut
- chicken
- clash
- clip
- close
- closed
- coast
- coke
- collar
- concurrent
- continue
- corner
- crash
- crashed
- crew
- crooked
- cross
- crossing