street corner

collocation in English

meaningsofstreetandcorner

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street
noun[C]
uk
/striːt/us
/striːt/
a road in a city or town that has buildings that are usually close together along one or ...
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corner
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɔː.nər/us
/ˈkɔːr.nɚ/
the point, area, or line that is formed by the meeting of two lines, surfaces, ...
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(Definition ofstreetandcornerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstreet corner

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Your local diner may have occupied itsstreetcornerfor decades, but one fine lunchtime you just might find that it has moved on.
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Rivalries betweenstreetcornerbosses associated with the same party could explode into violence.
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Singlish is spoken at all levels of society, fromstreetcornerto executive suite.
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On a downtownstreetcornerof the modern city there is no distance; there is only presence.
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I recall standing with a handsome male colleague on a busystreetcorner.
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The poet ended up sounding like he was hawking fish from astreetcorner.
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Take, for example, an individual's face or a specificstreetcorner.
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Effectively, unless the accompanying regulations state otherwise, the order could result in alcohol being sold on everystreetcorner.
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They talked then aboutstreetcornersites and frontages, and sites they would have to let, but they took the responsibility.
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Even if there were 100 police on everystreetcornerthey would have been powerless to arrest a girl if the area was not designated.
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What would we do if all we had to do was to get up in the morning and join our pals on thestreetcorner?
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I know the usual story told about thestreetcornerman—that he does not want work.
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This is no time or place for the pre-election indignity of bill-boards, sound trucks orstreetcornerblarings.
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We cannot have a policeman constantly on duty at everystreetcorner.
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He comes home to enjoy his leisure, and has only thestreetcorner, because there are no adequate leisure facilities in the town.
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My answer is: ask the workers today, in pub or club or atstreetcorner, who is driving them to the edge of starvation.
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They had that initial disadvantage, and now they have the awful fate of leaving school with nothing to go to but thestreetcorner.
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Thestreetcornershops in my area have gone because there is no money to sustain them.
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I have known some borough councils which wanted to improve astreetcorneron which there was a public house.
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Why does he go in for all thisstreetcornerstuff?
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