mecca

Example Sentences

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For decades, Saudi Arabia played an outsize role thanks to its vast oil production and its special status in Islam as home to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Saudi Arabia is likely to follow that pattern, allowing alcohol in parts of the country while prohibiting it in religiously sensitive areas such as the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

"People have been asking to come in too, it's just been non-stop, it's a Mecca for Harry Potter fans," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 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

I remember sitting with Joel Dias-Porter, who had not gone to Howard but whom I found at The Mecca, reviewing every line of Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage.”

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