How to Use high street in a Sentence

high street

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  • That’s just one section of one not-quite whole block of a high street.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Back past the man and woman in their gardens, past the high street, past the groundskeeper .
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • So, will Sephora be able to carve out its own space on the U.K. high street 18 years later?
    — Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Last week was likely a slow one in malls and on high streets with the pending election and heavy rain.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Imagine what a no-deal Brexit would mean for Britain's high street.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Customers are wise to the relentlessly quick turnover on the high street.
    — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2018
  • The miners welfare club is boarded up; the high street is full of bargain shops.
    — The Economist, 30 July 2020
  • The high street offers a wide array of thrift shops and cell-phone stores, but, honestly, not much else.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
  • The data comes as a fresh blow to the British high street after a year of consumer pullback in the face of rising prices and sluggish wage growth.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • But all year the British high street has been battling cautious consumers, as well as the rise of online shopping.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Those with a bust larger than is widely catered to on the high street should look to Freya, Beija and Bravissimo for styles.
    — Charlotte Owen, Vogue, 1 July 2022
  • The high street is packed with people huddled around the trader’s huts, trying to get their hands on something rhubarb-filled.
    — Craig Ballinger, Slate Magazine, 20 Mar. 2017
  • The global financial crisis sparked the first wave of U.K. high street store closures.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • They had been approached by a mother who was struggling to adapt high street clothes for her teenage son who had suffered a spinal cord stroke.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2021
  • But, so far, some high streets have avoided major damage.
    — Esther Fung, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Cardi's mum, however, approves of the high street store line, according to the star.
    — Photo: Gregg Deguire/getty Images., refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Among the options are a whole host of providers, regulated and compliant per U.K. law, or one of many high street banks.
    — Rupert Lee-Browne, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This continues the worst run of closures on Britain’s high streets since 2010, just after the financial crash.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • In Birmingham, around the corner from the Green Lane mosque, the high street is lined with halal butchers, restaurants and market stalls.
    — Edward Kiernan, CNN, 18 Aug. 2019
  • From the high street to the ultra-luxe, designers are also leaning into the sleeveless style.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2022
  • On a recent visit, two African migrants were handing out fliers at either end of the town’s medieval high street.
    — Marc Champion, Bloomberg.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • At the very same moment, a mother in a high street somewhere in the UK rummaged for change in her purse, the late queen’s head jostling on bits of metal in its cramped recesses.
    — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022
  • At the end of the first episode, Piper, playing an actress named Suzie Pickles, careens down the high street of a bucolic English village.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The new driving mode enable a quick CO2-free spin around populated high streets to soak up the envious stares.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • After an initial slow start to this season, the team was on the hunt for transitional pieces: fall looks in summer fabrics for the U.K. high street.
    — Ellen Groves, WWD, 15 July 2024
  • Television crews have become a common feature along the high street.
    — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This is perhaps one of the most urgent questions that retailers need to answer as the future of the high street is debated.
    — Catherine Erdly, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • Kate Middleton is known for many things—glorious hair, adorable children, a love of high street style—but wearing tiaras is not one of them.
    — Sarah Lindig, ELLE, 4 Dec. 2018
  • The city is home to the world’s biggest mall (Dubai Mall, the size of 200 soccer fields) and has attracted the best brands from all over the world—from luxury to high street and everything in between.
    — Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Ahead, find this season’s seven biggest jewellery trends, alongside inspiration from the summer 2024 runways and your favourite high street shops.
    — Ebony-Renee Baker, refinery29.com, 14 June 2024

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