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
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Maybe a little more Faulkner and less Fleet Street would be helpful here?
—Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
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Free parking next to the festival, in parking lots along Fleet Street.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
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Josh Groban: singer, actor and demon barber of Fleet Street.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Scholey plays Beattie Johnson, a ruthless Fleet Street journalist who will do anything for a story.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2023
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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
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Lewis’ maladroit interviews with scandal-loving Fleet Street journalists did not quell the public tempest.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
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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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