How to Use Fleet Street in a Sentence
Fleet Street
noun-
Maybe a little more Faulkner and less Fleet Street would be helpful here?
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Alexandra Jacobs,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2023
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Free parking next to the festival, in parking lots along Fleet Street.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Sep. 2022
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Armada Drive between north and south Fleet Street.
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Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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Or what about Fleet Street and the rise of daily newspapers in London but with shape-shifters!
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
2 July 2024
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His darkroom reminds me of my very first job working for a news agency located in the vicinity of Fleet Street.
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Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2025
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And while Fleet Street has a reputation for fuzzy ethics, that goes hand in hand with a reader-pleasing willingness to scorch sacred cows.
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Michael M. Grynbaum,
New York Times,
8 June 2024
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Officers located a blood trail in the 1700 block of Fleet Street in Fells Point.
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Tony Roberts,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Sep. 2023
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bill McGraw,
Detroit Free Press,
17 Mar. 2024
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Sure enough, there was FLEET Street – as in the Demon Barber of Fleet Street – and Wall Street and Main Street.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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