Example sentences for: place-name

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

  • Reluctantly I have to admit that the reader has no right to expect poetry or wit in this latest Oxford place-name dictionary.

  • Allen Walker Read, whose distinguished career now spans seven decades, contributed solid yet always thoroughly enjoyable papers, and in addition has given us the handy phrase “place-name cover” to describe how place names indeed blanket the country with richness, color, and texture.

  • The stress pattern of a place-name expression can sometimes differentiate between two meanings, but this clue can be lost if names alternate between languages.

  • So we have not examined the bulk of the place-name cover, which is in the form of names for natural features.

  • ' Dunkling and Gosling and Hanks and Hodges, on the other hand, take such names back to their own origin, often in a place-name.


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