Meanings of cold streets in English

It also helped explain the mood of stunned silence on the cold streets.

Back into the dark, cold streets he turned again.

The father began to weep, and Jenny moved on through the half-light of the cold streets.

How can that happen when our families are wandering the cold streets without a roof over their heads?

Mr Deane said the council's requirements were unnecessary because the shelter was far safer than the freezing cold streets.

His temper seemed to crave the bleak wet air of the cold streets, and he did not hurry himself.

Isn't it better to travel comfortably by train than to march along the cold streets behind a Salvation Army band?

After supper that night, Detective Minogue, roaming the cold streets, saw his son in Earl's bar, standing over a beer.

The monks stared in silence as I was taken from them and marched through the cold streets of Nicomedia to the imperial palace.

There were strikes, a hundred thousand idle men walking the cold streets, empty rows of buildings, shops and factories closed-anda hard winter coming on.