Example sentences for: place

How can you use “place” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When reports did not specify where the attacks were to take place, officials presumed that they would again be overseas, though they did not rule out a target in the United States.

  • It would take 2-3 years to add a plant; and this would only be done after a regulation was put in place, the technical advantages of ACI for mercury removal were proven relative to other approaches, and a clear time-line for compliance was mandated.

  • "Think about the poor bass; put yourself in his place.

  • And what of the kid who didn't get into Berkeley because I got his place?

  • Yiddish is especially versatile in describing those poor souls who inhabit the world of the ineffectual, and each is assigned a distinct place in the gallery of pathetic types: schmo, schmendrik, schnook, schmegegge, schlep, schlub, schmuck, putz, klutz, kvetch , and nudnik . Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a `pest'; a phudnik is a `nudnik with a Ph.D.' The rich nuances that suffuse this roll call are seen in the timeless distinction between a schlemiel `clumsy jerk' and a schlimazel `habitual loser': the schlemiel inevitably trips and spills his hot soup—all over the schlimazel.


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