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 - question features five images, representing a place name.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024
This is a traditional place name for the waterway and the translation of the Clallam word “Scɬəqʷ.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
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
