How to Use down the street in a Sentence

down the street

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  • Then the men scampered out of the house and down the street.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
  • Tour buses even drove down the street to point out the site.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Here was a man walking down the street; the wrong car drove by, and the man was gone.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • What age should a child be allowed to walk down the street alone?
    — Amy Morin, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • In the video, the children are holding hands and walking in a line down the street.
    — CNN, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Your 11-year-old son walks down the street to play with a friend after school.
    — Gina Barton, USA Today, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Karel said she was sometimes chased down the street by men.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Even down the street, neighbors could feel the intense heat.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The fact that Taylor Swift has a house down the street only adds to the allure.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Atkins’ house is on a corner, right down the street from where Aretha Franklin used to live.
    — Mathias Döpfner, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
  • His parents ran a print and copy shop in the city of Kocaeli, down the street from their house.
    — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • After failing to get through the second set of doors, the man left and walked down the street.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • To test the waters, CRC has already put on the market a 1-acre lot just down the street.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Striding down the street with such effort and such grace.
    — Stepfanie Aguilar, Outside Online, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Plus the yields can be even better than the fourplex that would ruin my life down the street.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The couple bought a $4.3 million house down the street from their firm’s offices.
    — David Enrich, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The event was sponsored in part by Chevron, owner of the oil refinery down the street.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • Lord and his friends, together with the Latino boy, left the party and walked down the street.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • People who can fly through the air, see through walls, and throw ten-ton trucks down the street are not human.
    — Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The men in the car were looking through binoculars down the street in the direction of the Thompsons' home.
    — Makena Gera, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
  • My first raps were written at home off Crenshaw Dr and 82nd, right down the street from the Forum.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 20 June 2024
  • Right down the street, the Shenanigans crew celebrates well into the night.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Go to the theater, go to dinner, walk down the street, just be together.
    — Abby Stern, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • The school is just down the street from their house, and Buddy even drove there at lunchtime, hoping to catch a glimpse of Kate on the playground.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
  • On August 7, the father, then aged 71, left the home with Margo to check the mailbox down the street, or so his son thought.
    — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
  • His house was not damaged but the storm toppled five pine trees in his front yard and many others down the street.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Jonah showed up at Moscow High down the street as a 150-pound freshman.
    — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 3 May 2024
  • The last bingo night in Marquette, held by the Shriners at the Masonic Building just down the street, closed at the end of last year.
    — John Carlisle and Photos By Ryan Garza, Freep.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Eighteen wheelers rumbled past at all hours, and masses of unhoused people camped down the street.
    — Charles Bock, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
  • That friend, who lives in a blue house down the street, is now a fervid supporter of former President Donald Trump.
    — Nico Lang, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024

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