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Streets in sentence

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Crowds of men with beards and skullcaps were swarming the streets.
Around this time, flooded tunnels erode the streets above into urban rivers.
Chinese Ailanthus trees burst through New York City streets.
And I thought to myself, these cabs aren't just numbers, these are GPS recorders driving around in our city streets recording each and every ride they take.
The average taxi is going 11 and a half miles per hour on our city streets, and it turns out it stays that way for the entire day.
TG: Right now, Grand Crossing is 99 percent black, or at least living, and we know that maybe who owns property in a place is different from who walks the streets every day.
I walk down the streets as a woman, and I really am at peace with who I am.
When after that, the Western powers carved China up into little pieces, so that by the time it got to the '20s and '30s, signs like this one appeared on the streets of Shanghai.
Not just in the streets, but in their homes, at school and at work.
So in the first 18 months, I watched the police stop pedestrians or people in cars, search people, run people's names, chase people through the streets, pull people in for questioning, or make an arrest every single day, with five exceptions.
So I started to walk the streets at night, late at night, going into the parks where they were, building the relationship that was necessary.
Because there was always somebody who would say, "We're going to take back the streets," but they would always seem to have a television camera with them, or a reporter, and they would enhance their own reputation to the detriment of those on the streets.
And they were all too happy to do that, and we got an idea of what life on the streets was all about, very different than what you see on the 11 o'clock news, very different than what is portrayed in popular media and even social media.
Most of the young people who were out there on the streets are just trying to make it on the streets.
I left it about four years ago and started working in cities across the United States, 19 in total, and what I found out was that in those cities, there was always this component of community leaders who put their heads down and their nose to the grindstone, who checked their egos at the door and saw the whole as greater than the sum of its parts, and came together and found ways to work with youth out on the streets, that the solution is not more cops, but the solution is mining the assets that are there in the community, to have a strong community component in the collaboration around violence reduction.
By the time my generation walked the streets, disinvestment at the local, state and federal level, eroded infrastructure, and the War on Drugs dismantled my family and community.
People used to toss litter into the streets, used to not wear seatbelts, used to smoke inside public buildings.
Once we started driving on neighborhood and city streets, the problem becomes a whole new level of difficulty.
It's actually much better heroin than you're going to buy on the streets, because the stuff you buy from a drug dealer is contaminated.
In Vietnam, 20 percent of all American troops were using loads of heroin, and if you look at the news reports from the time, they were really worried, because they thought, my God, we're going to have hundreds of thousands of junkies on the streets of the United States when the war ends; it made total sense.
The trio sought to combat their alienation by literally integrating themselves in public streets.
As we walked down the streets of Hollywood, in a neighborhood of screenwriters, actors and filmmakers, the trio assumed the invisibility that each senior does.
And you can do so from the comfort of your own home, without the risks associated with buying on the streets.
The streets were packed.
The Etruscans built expansive necropoles, their grid-patterned streets lined with tombs.
And by the end of September, he was living on the streets somewhere in France.
And I have no trouble imagining that after spending weeks or even months as a second-grade citizen, living on the streets or in a horrible makeshift camp with a stupid, racist name like "The Jungle," most of us would be willing to do just about anything.
For example, they are not allowed to buy a bus ticket or to rent a hotel room, so many families literally sleep in the streets.
The streets are full of itinerant traders selling trinkets and people bustling from place to place.
Large wagons are not allowed in the city until after the ninth hour but the streets are still crowded.
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