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How to use the word STREETS in a Sentence?

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The street outside my window is one of a million likeminded Los Angeles streets. Taggers, homeless, families and lovers, thieves and beggars, running children and old women, churches, bars, corner stores, Spanish, Cambodian and Armenian words and accents. I want to hug my street and all within, to feel the throbbing pulse beating its steady rhythm.

Scott C. Holstad

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8 months ago

I think Americans are thirsting for people making arguments, not just tweets. I think they’re looking for someone who can clearly articulate their vision for what parents ought to be doing to help their kids be successful in schools and how we take back crime from our streets and cities.

Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Think about that: that murder weapon will be back on the streets one day, it’s time to change this law and let us destroy illegal guns and destroy the guns that have been used to kill our friends and kill our neighbors.

Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That level of gun violence is beyond horrific, we have to take action now. We need short-term action to end this gun violence epidemic now so fewer people die on our streets, and in our banks, and in our schools and in our churches. And for that, we need help. We need help from our friends in Frankfurt and help from our friends in Washington, DC.

Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s morally insane that a week after a mass shooting took six precious lives in my community here in Nashville, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, their first action is not to take actions to rein in this proliferation of weapons of war in our streets, but it’s to expel their colleagues for standing with our constituents.

Justin Jones of Nashville

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are seeing that Palestinians are once again paying the price for Israel’s electoral choices, there may be calm in the streets of Tel Aviv … but for Palestinians, the reality remains the same.

Diana Buttu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The protesters now have the infrastructure to take protests out (to the streets) within minutes, the infrastructure is there, and if there will be a need, there will be a comeback (to the streets).

Gideon Rahat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The infrastructure is there, and if there will be a need, there will be a comeback (to the streets).

Gideon Rahat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On the one hand, he’s got a coalition that is based purely on Israel’s right wing, ultra-religious, far-right nationalistic political elements, on the other hand, the people protesting in the streets in Israel against this judicial overhaul, this is really the backbone of the Israeli economy.

Amir Tibon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On the other hand, the people protesting in the streets in Israel against this judicial overhaul, this is really the backbone of the Israeli economy.

Amir Tibon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That can’t be a footnote; it can’t be an afterthought, i’m speaking specifically, directly to both GOP and Democratic politicians: Be mindful of the words that you use. Because the words you use can have real world impacts on the bodies of Asian American people on the streets.

Charles Jung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We should all pay attention that San Francisco, the most liberal place in America, is saying enough. We want safe streets. We want good schools. That should tell anyone – pay attention.

Joel Engardio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For the first time, PDP is going to take Lagos, and I’m going to be the governor, people are really tired … the streets of Lagos are yearning for a breath of fresh air and that is what we represent.

Azeez Olajide Adediran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The irony is not lost on law enforcement, the very politicians who say they support the police and are against crime are the same politicians who deny us responsible gun reform legislation or any means to get this weaponry off the streets.

Juliette Kayyem

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to thank everyone who has been holding Ukrainian flags in the squares and streets of Georgia these days.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to thank everyone who has been holding Ukrainian flags in the squares and streets of Georgia these days, we want to be in the European Union and we will be. We want Georgia to be in the European Union, and I am sure it will be.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This legislation is part of our work to bring down the number of fatal overdoses and tackle the challenges driven by fentanyl head on, we will continue to work with our non-profits partners who are trying to open overdose prevention sites, fully implement our health strategies to help those struggling with addiction in our streets, and work with law enforcement to close the open-air drug markets.

London Breed

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to be working, i don’t want to be on disability, but I spent $17,000 on medical expenses last year trying to get better. If I didn’t have support and savings, I’d be on the streets.

Sarah Steinberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We would have two hours of electricity, then five hours without electricity, then three hours of electricity, it was really demoralizing, the worst thing about that was that the streets weren’t lit. And not all people use their torches or have [reflective] jackets to be seen on the road. And every week I would see a car crash from my balcony and some people died.

Yaryna Arieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Survivors (are) sleeping on the streets in freezing cold.

Mostafa Edo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our population has seen the faces of the military on the streets again.

Lurgio Gavilán

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I liked the fact that they seemed to be standing up to some of the street violence, standing up for some of the people who were being harassed on the streets, in my mind it seemed like someone defending the defenseless.

Matthew Greene

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The majority will only join in when the regime has lost its will to suppress, and the regime’s will to suppress is unlikely to crack unless there is a critical mass on the streets.

Ali Vaez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you watch what he went through, I would understand why members would want to bring that forward. Our first priority is to get our economy back on track, secure our borders, make our streets safe again, give parents the opportunity to have a say in their education, and actually hold government accountable. But I understand why individuals want to do it, and we’d look at it.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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