How to Use Downing Street in a Sentence

Downing Street

noun

• Their planned route does not overlap with the remembrance services near Downing Street.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Politicians, like everyone else, are free to live in sin even in residence at No. 10 Downing Street.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 26 Feb. 2023
• Part of that might be because of Downing Street’s media management.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Even the most ardent sneakerheads know there is a time and a place for a gum sole, and the British public have decided on-camera at 10 Downing Street is neither.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• In a speech from outside Downing Street, Sunak said the King had granted his request for the dissolution of parliament.
  — Time Staff, TIME, 23 May 2024
• Natalie works at 10 Downing Street serving him tea and biscuits.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
• Sunak will press for a humanitarian corridor to open to Gaza as soon as possible, to enable British nationals trapped in the enclave to leave and for aid to flow into the area, Downing Street said.
  — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
• Currently, the couple and their children reside at 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the prime minister and their family.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
• Sunak was in the background when Johnson was overthrown in September 2022 over his passing involvement in drinks parties at Downing Street during the coronavirus lockdowns.
  — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Instead, he was bounced into an emergency meeting of his cabinet and an address, in Downing Street, on Wednesday afternoon.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
• Yet the party’s centrists would probably balk at installing a polarizing figure in Downing Street before an election.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• On a rainy Wednesday, the 44-year-old delivered a surprise announcement outside the prime minister's official residence at 10 Downing Street in London.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 23 May 2024
• Johnson’s finances were frequently under scrutiny during his turbulent three years in Downing Street.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• But, in fact, her 007 spectacular garnered more publicity than Katharine could have ever imagined because of a certain Downing Street publicity moment.
  — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2024
• So Buckingham Palace and Downing Street planned a royal ceremonial funeral.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
• Sunak, as prime minister, receives an additional layer of protection, and police officers are permanently stationed at Downing Street.
  — Isabella Kwai, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Johnson’s Downing Street was operatically dysfunctional.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024