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street corner

collocation in English

meanings of streetand corner


These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with corner or street.
street
noun[C]
uk /striːt/ us /striːt/
a road in a city or town that has buildings that are usually close together along one or ...
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corner
noun[C]
uk /ˈkɔː.nər/ us /ˈkɔːr.nɚ/
the point, area, or line that is formed by the meeting of two lines, surfaces, ...
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Examples of street corner


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Your local diner may have occupied its streetcorner for decades, but one fine lunchtime you just might find that it has moved on.
Rivalries between streetcorner bosses associated with the same party could explode into violence.
Singlish is spoken at all levels of society, from streetcorner to executive suite.
On a downtown streetcorner of the modern city there is no distance; there is only presence.
I recall standing with a handsome male colleague on a busy streetcorner.
The poet ended up sounding like he was hawking fish from a streetcorner.
Take, for example, an individual's face or a specific streetcorner.
Effectively, unless the accompanying regulations state otherwise, the order could result in alcohol being sold on every streetcorner.
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They talked then about streetcorner 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 streetcorner 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 streetcorner?
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I know the usual story told about the streetcorner 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 streetcorner blarings.
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We cannot have a policeman constantly on duty at every streetcorner.
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He comes home to enjoy his leisure, and has only the streetcorner, 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 streetcorner, 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 streetcorner.
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The streetcorner 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 streetcorner on which there was a public house.
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Why does he go in for all this streetcorner stuff?
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