How to Use across the street in a Sentence

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  • The Phoenix location will have 30 televisions and arcade games, 90 parking spaces onsite and more across the street.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Today, the property (including its restaurant, The Bird, across the street) has been completely renovated with a pool and campfire space.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Maybe a horse got loose from the ranch across the street?
    — Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The high school is across the street from the middle school.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
  • The two lived in the lab during the day and at the bar across the street at night.
    — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The view from the balcony is of the rear parking lot and across the street.
    — Megan Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • An upstairs light came on in the house across the street.
    — Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
  • The store is located across the street from the high school.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
  • As Lewis and his friend were at the bus stop, Long and the 16-year old who was with him were across the street.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Some think the Stoneleigh P got its name from the 100-year-old Stoneleigh Hotel across the street.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Ahead of her a coyote loped across the street with something in its mouth.
    — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Faith Pinho: The house is across the street from a shopping plaza and a nightclub.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Orr stood across the street from it, talking with the police chief for a story.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Dozens more set up lawn chairs, blankets and cameras in the churchyard across the street.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There was another guy across the street that gave the name to my brother: YR.
    — Matt Thompson, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The next morning, the first camera crews were staking out their spots in the grassy plaza across the street from City Hall.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Morris tried to escape, but Moore chased him and killed him on a lawn across the street from Moore’s car.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2023
  • The store is across the street from U.N. Plaza, where drug dealing and use are commonplace.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Photograph: Phil Jung A fruit stand sits across the street from the compound.
    — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Around the same time, two girls peer into the building before killing some time in a few shops across the street.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The church bell rang exactly at noon at St. Athanasius across the street.
    — Darrell Kunitomi, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Lauren Smith, 40, lives across the street from where the shooting happened.
    — Curt Anderson and Freida Frisaro, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2023
  • Lida and Mark Simpson sit on the steps of their porch with friends while the blues rock band Red Medicine plays in a yard across the street.
    — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2023
  • Police said the gunfire came from a public housing unit across the street from the park.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Its windows on one side look out on the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, just across the street.
    — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • At the time, Nancy worked as a bartender across the street from Second City, and Steve would go in to chat with her.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023
  • The 2011 maps had been drawn in secret, in a locked wing of a law firm across the street from the Wisconsin state capitol.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Parking is free across the street from the main entrance off Fisher Road at Gate 4.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 12 May 2023
  • And the cottage-style annex is across the street from the main house, with no TVs for serenity’s sake.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2024
  • Cousins approached the young girl and grabbed her hand, walking her across the street to a parking garage, the report read.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024

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