Sentence examples for untidy streets from inspiring English sources

Mustapha, though quite as pretty as any of the suburbs near Cannes or Nice, lacks the neatness and garden-like look which we associate with the Riviera; but perhaps the general air of slovenliness is atoned for, to many eyes, by the picturesque populace filling the untidy streets.

Her limited view of America came from the untidy street she lived on and the long struggle to adapt to American ways.

Thirty years after that life-changing fall, Wyatt and his partner, Alfreda Benge, are once again Delfina's tenants at her live-in studios for visiting British and international artists on an untidy stretch of Bermondsey Street in south London.

But for the rest of us, how comforting it would be to see the pink flashing light of the code-enforcement lady as she patrols the streets, admonishiong the untidy, correcting grammar, straightening baseball caps and generally fighting the forces of evil.

Scattered around him on the floor are signs of an untidy studio, la vie bohème or the street itself: empty wine bottles, flowers, newspapers, teacups, maybe some sheet music, a tiny photograph.

Pauline Beck of 69 Elizabeth Street came close, running "a noisy and untidy den of assignation, visited only by the lowest class of people" while the landlady at 105 West 27th Street was said to be "as sour as her wine".

Tourism in Syria then amounted to little more than the occasional coachload of Soviet factory workers, though Aleppo outside the souk was becoming an untidy mess of concrete and cinder block, its narrow streets choked with drivers who kept their thumbs permanently on their horns.

Edith Piaf, brought up in deep poverty in the back streets of Paris, has scrawled a tribute across the back in large, untidy writing, making schoolgirl mistakes in her French grammar.

Most striking is the family's window on the world -- that 16-foot arch through which you can see the north side of the main post office and the untidy drama, as the urbanist Jane Jacobs might say, of the life on the street below.

So untidy.

An untidy cell.