street corner collocation | meaning and examples of use
collocation in English
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with corner or street
the point, area, or line that is formed by the meeting of two lines, surfaces, …
a road in a city or town that has buildings that are usually close together along one or …
(Definition of street and corner from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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Your local diner may have occupied its street corner for decades, but one fine lunchtime you just might find that it has moved on.
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Rivalries between street corner bosses associated with the same party could explode into violence.
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Singlish is spoken at all levels of society, from street corner to executive suite.
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On a downtown street corner of the modern city there is no distance; there is only presence.
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I recall standing with a handsome male colleague on a busy street corner.
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The poet ended up sounding like he was hawking fish from a street corner.
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Take, for example, an individual’s face or a specific street corner.
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Effectively, unless the accompanying regulations state otherwise, the order could result in alcohol being sold on every street corner.
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They talked then about street corner sites and frontages, and sites they would have to let, but they took the responsibility.
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Even if there were 100 police on every street corner they would have been powerless to arrest a girl if the area was not designated.
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What would we do if all we had to do was to get up in the morning and join our pals on the street corner?
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I know the usual story told about the street corner man—that he does not want work.
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This is no time or place for the pre-election indignity of bill-boards, sound trucks or street corner blarings.
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We cannot have a policeman constantly on duty at every street corner.
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He comes home to enjoy his leisure, and has only the street corner, because there are no adequate leisure facilities in the town.
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My answer is: ask the workers today, in pub or club or at street corner, who is driving them to the edge of starvation.
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They had that initial disadvantage, and now they have the awful fate of leaving school with nothing to go to but the street corner.
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The street corner shops in my area have gone because there is no money to sustain them.
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I have known some borough councils which wanted to improve a street corner on which there was a public house.
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Why does he go in for all this street corner stuff?
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