down the street

phrase

: some distance away on the same street

our neighbor down the street

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Cast and crew broke for lunch at a sweet-and-sour-shrimp restaurant down the street. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Lines down the street, and much hype around weekly flavor drops became the norm. — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026 The store, inside the Shops at Marble Hill, a mall on West 225th Street, is just down the street from where the shooting occurred. — Kim Bhasin, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026 As chance would have it, the couple already knew architect and designer Charlotte Lilford, a parent at their daughter Mathilda’s school, who had renovated another house down the street. — Amira Hashish, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for down the street

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