sense of place

Example Sentences

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Two of my very favorite restaurants in New Mexico reside along this zagging sweep, both quirky and atmospheric and also grounding in their sense of place.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

It’s also her most stylistically coherent collection of songs since 2015’s “Pageant Material,” with a strong sense of place and tasteful genre experiments that stitch it all together.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Learning about the river, she said, created a group of “children with a fierce sense of place and a fierce determination to protect what’s left and to bring back as much as we can.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

The guild said it agreed with the SWA that "provenance and a sense of place is a critical element of whisky" and English whisky distillers' grain had to be sourced from the UK.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

They’d blunder along through the dark, willy-nilly, no sense of place or direction, probing for an enemy that nobody could see.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien