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
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
The only virtue claimed for the story is that it is all literally true: every place, name and date being authentic.
From The Emma Gees by McBride, Herbert Wes
