on this spot
Example Sentences
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The huge crater containing a mangled mattress buried under a pile of dust and stone is all that's left of the building that stood on this spot just days ago.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2024
She consulted with an impressive list of experts, from museum curators and historians to a glaciologist and paleobotanist, who advised her on what types of grasses likely grew on this spot thousands of years ago.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023
It was especially meaningful, she added, to think of the Africans who arrived on this spot in 1619 without knowing what lay ahead.
From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2021
Umm Haram, a relative of the Prophet Mohammed, died on this spot, making it one of the holiest sites in Islam.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2017
There was a small potato cellar beneath the kitchen floor: they enlarged the trapdoor letting into it, put a large rug on top of it, and moved the kitchen table to stand on this spot.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
