It's off the main drag

Usage examples of sidestreet.

He went to a bar in a sidestreet where the raucous hybrid beerhall music of the north was blaring from an open door and he got very drunk and got in a fight and woke in the gray dawn on an iron bed in a green room with paper curtains at a window beyond which he could hear roosters calling.

The Fiasco feels better on these sidestreets, where it can show off its acceleration.

From the sidestreets, it had well-manicured lawns and tidy houses, too many strip restaurants and the ubiquitous mall.

The car cut hard to the left, barreling down a sidestreet toward the East River.

He ate a breakfast of coffee and pan dulce at a cafe counter in a sidestreet off the square and he entered a farmacia and bought a bar of soap and put it in the pocket of his jacket along with his razor and toothbrush and then set out along the road west.

As they pulled away from a traffic light, Allen noticed a car parked in a sidestreet.