proper noun

Example Sentences

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Other players, equally freed from the bother of proper nouns or even definite articles, go by handily expository titles like “first brother-in-law” or “longest friend.”

From New York Times

Change a few proper nouns and Henson describes my son Mike.

From Los Angeles Times

It can’t decipher proper nouns such as names and places, and sometimes it just gets things wrong altogether.

From Scientific American

Everything began, cosmologists currently think, with a bang — the Big Bang; if it does not deserve to be a proper noun, what does?

From Washington Post

The local names must be Philippine proper nouns that should not exceed nine letters or three syllables, said Sheilla Reyes, a weather specialist at the country’s national meteorological service.

From New York Times