Example sentences for: place-

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

  • In any event, this book is well known to all who are familiar with onomastic literature, as, indeed, are other works by George Stewart, American Place-Names and Names on the Globe (reviewed in VERBATIM by W.F.H.

  • Frank Abate (“Unraveling the American Place-Name Cover” [XVIII,2]) missed a few choice names: there is a village (though without a post office) named Obtuse , Connecticut; many know about Truth-or-Consequences , New Mexico, named for an old quiz show.

  • ¹The first anthology was entitled Pubs, Place-Names and Patronymics: Selected Papers of the Names Institute, edited by E. Wallace McMullen (FDU, 1980. Covers 1962-1979.) and is still in print.

  • They have complacently chosen to update and marginally simplify Eilert Ekwall's previous Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names . I see very little evidence that they stopped to think who would be interested in this specialized information, and how it could best be presented.

  • This Melrose Place- style soap about aspiring Olympic athletes is deemed the most uncouth of the new teen and twentysomething shows.


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