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
The first – and easiest – challenge features five images, representing a place name.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 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
That is the world’s longest place name, according to the Guinness World Records.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2022
The preservation of this place name for nearly two thousand years cannot be regarded as an accident.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
