How to Use down the street in a Sentence

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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
  • Strong winds were pushing embers down the street and smoke choked the air.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Fuller’s goal is to keep the area true to its history and keep the chains — like the Starbuck’s down the street — out.
    — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • That said, Double Chicken Please seems to borrow more from the art world than the speakeasy down the street.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • In 2005, Bosley’s cousin Vincent Avant was shot and killed just down the street from his Chicago area home.
    — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • His speech, delivered down the street from the White House, was classic Trump.
    — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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 dead man, shot by gang members, was being wheeled away in a wheelbarrow down the street by his brother and a friend.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
  • And still for others, the simple ease of throwing everything in one bag and heading out the door makes up for any anxiety of being seen walking down the street with a Louis Vuitton Neverfull hitched on their shoulder.
    — Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025

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