mecca

Example Sentences

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His finance minister is left to explain the closing of big projects like Neom, a 105-mile-long city, or the Mukaab, a 1,300-foot cube-shaped skyscraper resembling the Kaaba shrine in Mecca.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

In 2016, Philadelphia razed another skateboard Mecca, known as Love Park.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Of these, four people stayed back in Mecca while four went to Medina by car.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

They called it Mecca, and every week, they came to the same stretch of levee next to an abandoned warehouse where Mardi Gras floats were once built.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

The starship punched out into the dark, punched through the sky, punched out past West Baltimore, punched out past The Mecca, past New York, past any language and every spectrum known to me.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates