Sentence examples for mean streets around from inspiring English sources
They were mean streets around Broadway and West Broadway – little rickety tenement buildings with visible fire escapes and picturesque early cast-iron former factories and warehouses.
Not mean streets but boring streets: the streets around his own apartment, for instance, in one of the giant postwar apartment buildings on Third Avenue in the Thirties.
With this device in hand, he sped around the mean streets of San Francisco, looking for passports to scan, and he found some!
We loved the clothes and that he had specific resort-wear, because we never saw him wear anything remotely like it around the mean streets of Encino.
One afternoon, Scorsese was showing his friend and mentor, the British director Michael Powell, around some of the locations used in Mean Streets.
He cut 'Mean Streets' himself completely".
SOME lawmen chase villains down mean streets.
Mean streets, red clay roads.
There are many scenes in which Doyle simply cruises around New York, searching, brooding; these, to me, evoke the city as powerfully as Mean Streets or Taxi Driver.
And that will leave the mean streets meaner still.
