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Example sentences for "place called"

  • And at last they found the President hiding in a small saloon upon the outskirts of a place called Pinkerville on the Hudson, and gave the plans of the Butteridge machine into his hands.

  • They don't say anything about a place called Clapham, or Bun Hill, do they?

  • And once 'e come to a place called Piccadilly, Teddy, and there was lights blazing like daylight and ladies and gentlemen in splendid clo'es crowding the pavement, and taxicabs follering along the road.

  • Within the last few years, the inhabitants of this place have been making a growing acquaintance with the Finlanders on the opposite shores, at a place called Helsingforst, which is only approachable between a number of rocky islands.

  • At another time, being at a place called Crowlands, he asked me why it was called so.

  • Leaving them, we had a long and hard ride to a place called Winnicinnit, where, to my great joy, we found a comfortable house and Christian people, with whom we tarried.

  • Afterwards we rode until the sun was nigh setting, when we came to a little hut on the shore of a broad lake at a place called Massapog.

  • Beaubassin landed, with a hundred men, at a place called Lorembec, and advanced to surprise the English detachment; but was discovered by an outpost of forty men, who attacked and routed his party.

  • Nowe, within fewe dayes after the feast they which goe on the voyage depart out of the citie two leagues vnto a place called Birca, where they expect the Captaine of the Carouan.

  • Ocac), and which Elle de Laprimaudaie in his Periplus of the Mediaeval Caspian, locates at a place called Kaszik, a little east of Mariupol.

  • Provisions were scarce during the two last days, and we now approached the confines of the Mexican empire, at a place called Xocotlan; to the cacique of which place Cortes sent a message informing him of our arrival.

  • This great and decisive battle was fought in the neighbourhood of a place called Obtumba, Otumba, or Otompan.

  • These chiefs waited accordingly on Xicotencatl, whose army was posted about two leagues from our quarters, at a place called Tehuacinpacingo, and delivered the message of Cortes.

  • The opposition increased as we neared Corinth, and at a place called Russell's we had a sharp affair of one brigade, under the immediate direction of Brigadier-General Morgan L.

  • The most agreeable promenades of the city are on the bastions and ramparts, a place called La Treille and a garden or park of small extent called Plain Palais.

  • On arriving at a place called the Epitafio, from there being an ancient tomb there, we took leave of the last Roman post.

  • At one mile and half beyond the Epitafio is the first Neapolitan post at a place called Torre de' Confini, where we were detained half an hour to have our passports examined and our portmanteaus searched.

  • Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.

  • And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

  • Really we cannot take a place called "Gatlie Hill" and pronounce that we have found "Catlockhill"!

  • Farther down Esk, west of Esk, dwelt Kinmont Willie, an Armstrong, "at a place called Morton.

  • As darkness was now coming on, we were anxious to find lodgings for the night, and, hearing that there was an inn at a place called Invergarry, seven and a half miles from Fort Augustus, we were obliged to go there.

  • They stopped for the night at a place called Myra, where the innkeeper murdered them for their money and baggage, and placed their mangled bodies in a pickling-tub, intending to sell them as pork.

  • The desperadoes engaged in it on the Scottish side were known as Moss-troopers, any of whom when caught by the English were taken to Carlisle and hanged near there at a place called Hairibee.

  • St. Blazey, a rather queer name, we thought, for a place called after a saint!

  • So, going on our course, we arrived next at a place called Coquimbo, where our General sent fourteen of his men on land to fetch water.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "place called" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain rate; color from; divine mission; had managed; making the; morrow night; once that; place and; place between; place himself; place like; place myself; place name; place prepared; place the; place themselves; place where; place wherein; placed before; placed himself; placed myself; placed upon; resolutions adopted; special jury; what has been done; will neither