How to Use postcode in a Sentence
postcode
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But the odds are long, even for the biggest club in London's most prestigious postcode.
—David Dawkins, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
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With Boca’s midfielders camped on the edge of their own penalty box, there was rarely a team-mate in the same postcode.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 21 June 2025
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Because grief does not respect titles, postcodes or calendars.
—Belal Aftab, Mercury News, 13 July 2025
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Some provinces could afford it, others couldn’t, which ended up creating a postcode lottery for artists.
—Shain Shapiro, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
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Then the side-foot finish to beat the goalkeeper, the only opposition player still in the same postcode.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
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This is the epicentre for high-end shopping, literally or window, among some of the most exclusive postcodes in the world.
—Jaymi McCann, TheWeek, 8 May 2026
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The strict laws also sent night owls into new areas outside the lockout precinct, effectively moving the problem to a new postcode.
—Jack Tregoning, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2020
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With those words, what was once just another London postcode instantly became a pin on the Hollywood map.
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2024
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My app provides a precise address for the AirTag’s location, complete with postcode (or zip code), as well as a time for when it was last located.
—Barry Collins, Forbes, 15 May 2021
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In Britain, health care access and health care outcomes are known to vary radically by postcode (the British term for the American zip code).
—John C. Goodman, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
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In fact, everything Wimbledon designs is done in house from the hallowed grounds of the SW19 postcode.
—Jon Haworth, ABC News, 3 July 2024
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The app also uses Bluetooth tracing but doesn't ask for personal details aside from the first part of a person's postcode, though the data will be centrally housed.
—Hadas Gold, CNN, 5 June 2020
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London’s richest home sellers have been resorting to price reductions to secure deals as real estate valuations in high-end postcodes have tumbled from their peak reached about a decade ago.
—Damian Shepherd, Fortune Europe, 8 Mar. 2024
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Potential diners simply plug their postcode (or zip code) into a government website for a list of participating pubs and restaurants, which is pretty much all of them in most areas.
—Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2020
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For example, favela homes often lack a number or a postcode, and their locations can be unsafe or hard to reach, meaning favela deliveries are frowned on by most traditional logistics firms.
—Angelica Mari, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
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Finally, each installation of the app was associated with one of 338 postcode districts.
—John Drake, Forbes, 21 May 2021
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The contrast of hearing the often-harrowing story behind a postcode while simultaneously seeing the banal ebb and flow of modern life can feel disorienting.
—Manori Ravindran, Variety, 16 May 2023
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According to the lottery, Allan's postcode, S42 6AE, was chosen to share a £1 million prize pool.
—Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
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Like other local authorities, this council did not until recently have postcode-level data on infections, which is essential for controlling outbreaks.
—Rachel Shabi, The New York Review of Books, 8 July 2020
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The multi-purpose shop, tasting lounge and fine dining space for private experiences will allow Macallan to serve its discerning customers in the heart of London’s most prestigious postcode.
—Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
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In August last year, most NHS trusts would still not allow partners to attend prenatal scans and as the months drew on, the rules women were subject to became something of a postcode lottery.
—Natasha Preskey, refinery29.com, 28 May 2021
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The very specific territorial allegiance of Londoners to their postcodes was important to the show’s original identity.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, fragmentation of access compounds existing challenges by creating a postcode lottery for innovation.
—Kath MacKay, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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This was RodeoHouston’s surprise pop-up, a Texas-sized teaser for its 2026 season, beamed into one of the most expensive advertising postcodes on the planet.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 8 Jan. 2026
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With its stone archways, antique chandeliers, cozy corners, and display cabinets full of mismatched trinkets, Sufret Maryam still has that home-like feeling, albeit a home befitting its exclusive Al Wasl postcode.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2025
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Located in the uber-posh Mayfair neighborhood, with Buckingham Palace just a jaunt across Hyde Park, the Four Seasons at Park Lane is as stately a property as the postcode demands.
—Abbey Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
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Mulzet reads an excerpt from Herscht 07769, which takes its title from the protagonist’s decision to write German Chancellor Angela Merkel a letter using only his name and postcode as a return address.
—Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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