place name
Example Sentences
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To the European Union, Feta, though not a place name, can come only from a region of Greece that has millennia of tradition making that kind of cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The first – and easiest – challenge features five images, representing a place name.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024
“Not one of my colleagues in the legislature voted against the bill because so many recognize this word is not a place name that belongs in California.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024
I’d been discussing the Holocaust for 45 minutes and the whole time he’d heard “Nazi Germany” as “Nazi, Germany,” as though I were saying a place name like “Atlanta, Georgia.”
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
A place name here "Peircies Toyle" Creek very likely is a result of his activity in this area.
From The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 by Hatch, Charles E.