place name
Example Sentences
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In the Middle East, a place name is never just a name—it is a claim.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
If a particular place name sounds hilarious to English speakers, you can bet local people are tired of having that pointed out by giggling visitors.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2024
She said it was not right that the eco project was trying to claim ownership of a word that was a place name, a river and a surname, and used by other businesses in Cumbria.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2022
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
Punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards.In the original, the place name "St. John's" was consistently spelled incorrectly as "St. Johns" and has been corrected here.
From Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North by Wallace, Dillon
