Sentence examples for half the streets from inspiring English sources

As you walk up the low hill towards the centre, you pass elegant townhouses, old-fashioned shops, plenty of dust-sheeted renovation sites, and seemingly half the streets of the centre being re-cobbled in pristine grey stone.

Jahyra — your quintessential Caribbean puta, half cute, half not — who'd left home at the age of fifteen and lived in Curaçao, Madrid, Amsterdam, and Rome, has two kids and a breast job bigger than Luba's in "Love and Rockets," and who claimed, proudly, that her aparato had paved half the streets in her mother's home town.

Police closed both the Route 90 and the lower-lying Route 50 bridge and also blocked off about half the streets of the city, essentially the city's entire lower, southern half, which is more prone to flooding.

Deranged, on-off schemes by the GLC to demolish half the streets when the fruit and veg market moved out meant that buildings were abandoned, as everybody prepared for the shift south to Nine Elms.

Giovanni Intra, an owner of China Art Objects, recalled that when he and his partner, Steve Hanson, first visited in mid-1998, "half the street was up for rent".

Half the street voted for Trump and half voted for Clinton.

A police cruiser was parked half on the street, half in the Eykelbooms' yard.

It was another day and a half before the streets were cleared and sanitation services resumed.

Instead, the five of us, and half the street, went out to contemplate its alien enormity, like seaside villagers staring up at a beached ocean liner.

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She was just about to leave when I told her that half the street was sitting in my living room and they wanted to meet her.