How to Use Fleet Street in a Sentence

Fleet Street

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  • Officers located a blood trail in the 1700 block of Fleet Street in Fells Point.
    — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Maybe a little more Faulkner and less Fleet Street would be helpful here?
    — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Free parking next to the festival, in parking lots along Fleet Street.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Josh Groban: singer, actor and demon barber of Fleet Street.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2022
  • For a long time, much of Westminster and Fleet Street wrote him off as a plodding lawyer who was too lacking in charisma to lead his party back to power.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
  • And then there are pages and pages devoted to Harry’s personal trials, which even the most dogged reporter on Fleet Street would not dare dream of uncovering.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Recognized as a leading portrait paparazzo, Armstrong-Jones also freelanced in the dog-eat-dog world of Fleet Street newspapers.
    — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Scholey plays Beattie Johnson, a ruthless Fleet Street journalist who will do anything for a story.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • The possibly apocryphal story that accompanies every retelling is that on London’s Fleet Street, newspaper editors saw the score come over the wire and assumed that 1-0 had to be a typo.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Lewis’ maladroit interviews with scandal-loving Fleet Street journalists did not quell the public tempest.
    — Chris Morris, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
  • First, they are packed with scandalous, sometimes vengeful anecdotes about Fleet Street, publishing, the London literary scene and the international film world.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 July 2023

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