What's the difference between alleyway and street?

Alleyway


Definition:

  • (n.) An alley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two years after the revolution began I am touring the alleyways of Saraqeb with a group of young men counting their dead.
  • (2) A rapist is not necessarily a violent man with a knife down a dark alleyway.
  • (3) She took me through the recently built but struggling “theatre district” with its dismal alleyways and closed nightclub.
  • (4) The traditional courtyard homes, or siheyuan, that line the city’s hutong alleyways were arranged according to the “duties of obligation” between family members.
  • (5) The magnificent gigantic sprawl of the Edinburgh festival fringe, the biggest arts festival in the world, is once again set to swamp every spare stage, school hall, pub back room and alleyway in the Scottish capital, this year featuring 49,497 performances of 3,193 shows in 299 venues.
  • (6) lion67 Mix it in Melbourne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bar Americano Hidden in an alleyway off an alleyway in Melbourne’s CBD, the wonderful staff at Bar Americano mixed me the best drink I’ve ever had in my life, and then swiftly followed it with an even better one.
  • (7) In a second experiment, sham-operated and decorticate rats were first shaped to pull the ball clear from the alleyway, and then required to adopt a push-type clearance response when movement of the ball towards the start box was prevented.
  • (8) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
  • (9) Pih said the artist had reinstalled the work especially for Tate, adding a 2013 touch: a woman's shoe he found down a Liverpool alleyway – "a residue of a night out".
  • (10) Rise in the streets, in the schools, on the buses, in your homes, in the dark alleyways, in the offices and factories and fishing boats and fields.
  • (11) They live in abandoned, rubble-strewn houses and slip through alleyways to avoid sniper bullets.
  • (12) The same four alleyways in New York are used over and over again, perpetuating the same tired cliche And yet today, film-makers instead simply treat it as a backlot set, a blank slate to create whatever version of amusement park best fits a script.
  • (13) In a quiet alleyway in Tripoli's old city, a 33-year-old man said he had a rebel flag hidden at home, waiting for the day when Gaddafi goes.
  • (14) The effect of visual distracting stimuli upon the straight alleyway performance of dorsal hippocampectomized Wistar rats was investigated.
  • (15) Roughly speaking.” The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had In Edinburgh in the late 90s I went to a barber’s I had always gone to, in an alleyway off Cockburn Street, run by an old Italian man, but he wasn’t there, and in his place were two threatening, scowling young men.
  • (16) "If you're chasing critters up and down alleyways, you're missing the point," he said.
  • (17) It also unveiled the Street View Trekker , a bulky backpack with several 15-megapixel cameras protruding on a stalk, so that operatives can capture "offroad" imagery from hiking trails, narrow alleyways or the forest floor.
  • (18) Responses to male conspecific odors (soiled bedding) presented in an alleyway were compared among five groups of adult male albino house mice with different rearing histories.
  • (19) I think they worked out we weren't going to follow them off down the alleyways, and for me that was a complete no-no, as the one thing I wanted to avoid was another Keith Blakelock [the officer killed in the Tottenham riot of 1985].
  • (20) Behind their heads, the small window opened on to the narrow, dark alleyway that for 26 months has been one of the Australian's only views.

Street


Definition:

  • (a.) Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (2) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (3) The remain side have already targeted Johnson’s credibility in attacks that the Brexiters believe were orchestrated by Downing Street.
  • (4) Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence Read more “The law against gay propaganda legitimised violence against LGBT people, and they now are banning street actions under it,” Klimova said.
  • (5) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
  • (6) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
  • (7) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
  • (8) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
  • (9) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
  • (10) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
  • (11) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
  • (12) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (13) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
  • (14) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
  • (15) A few blocks away there are streets full of empty buildings, signs that the oil boom of the past decade is long past.
  • (16) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (17) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
  • (18) A street market in Karm al-Shami, central Homs, last month.
  • (19) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (20) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.