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:

  • This is especially interesting in view of recent place-name changes in Russia, whereby Tsaritsyn was changed to Stalingrad , then again to Volgograd . Likewise St. Petersburg became Petrograd and later Leningrad . Even in America, politics change, and people go in and out of favor.

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

  • Prior to its publication, such place-name information was only available in disparate sources, and often only on magnetic tape or in the form of computer printouts.

  • Had it remained a traditional book, there would have been a strong case for listing separately the hundreds of names that consist of a personal name and common place-name element.

  • He will have had no need to consult the Introduction to discover that Tætel's name is preceded by *because it is “inferred from comparative [place-name] evidence and postulated to occur.”


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