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Example sentences for: place-names
How can you use “place-names” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The you-are-there feel of the story is upset only slightly by the disorienting avalanche of Seussian place-names in such passages as: "The police closed the main road from Pristina to Pec soon after dawn.
Poets, as Stephen Vincent Benét reminded us, can fall in love with place-names.
The author is a highly reputable academic toponymist, and he is dealing with English, not American, place-names.
But he could have mentioned a most important function that the book fulfills: that of setting straight the many misapprehensions regarding the origins of English place-names.
Foster might have attended to the poems and shown how willfully they use place-names (and in the later verse, Yeats' famous friends' names) to erect the mansion of Irish literature.