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How to use place in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Place means an open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. Example: “They live at Westminster Place.”

Examples of place by meaning

nounA street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.

  • They live at Westminster Place.

nounAny area of the earth: a region.

  • He is going back to his native place on vacation.
  • From another point of view, it was a place without a soul.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

nounThe area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.

  • We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.

nounThe area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.

  • Do you want to come over to my place later?

nounAn area of the body, especially the skin.

  • Which place hurts the most?

nounA location or position in space.

  • I'll check places I think she might be.
  • A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

nounProper or usual position.

  • A place for everything, and everything in its place.

nounA particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.

  • I lost my place when you interrupted me.

More sentences with place

  • Unfair discrimination between the able-bodied and the disabled is illegal in many places.From the entry able-bodied
  • He’s in a better place now, floating free as the clouds above.From the entry above
  • In many places, Acadian has been supplanted by English and by Standard French.From the entry Acadian
  • The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date.From the entry date
  • In the word "careful", the accent is placed on the first syllable.From the entry accent
  • I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.From the entry ad
  • The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader.From the entry close
  • She placed the workpiece on the bench, inspected it closely, and opened the cover.From the entry bench
  • The robot arm reached out and placed the part on the assembly line.From the entry arm
  • After we found the freshwater spring we were more confident that the place was habitable.From the entry habitable
  • The place is empty; we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.From the entry beat
  • In the polar regions one finds dark cold waters with few places to breath.From the entry breath
  • She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.From the entry she
  • The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.From the entry mouth
  • He walked into the house, soaking wet, and trailed water all over the place.From the entry trail
  • Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.From the entry entrance
  • I want to go to this place but the entrance is too expensive.From the entry entrance
  • Smith managed to extend her lead over the second place to half a second.From the entry lead
  • The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.From the entry cut
  • There was a fire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.From the entry fire
  • I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!From the entry get
  • We went the full length of the promenade before we found a place to sit down.From the entry go
  • The first level of the game is the best place to grind extra lives.From the entry grind
  • A man of his condition has no place to make requests.From the entry condition
  • After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.From the entry ram
  • In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.From the entry salt
  • Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.From the entry sharp
  • In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.From the entry state
  • Traditional values will always have a place—therefore, they will never lose relevance.From the entry therefore
  • The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.From the entry tack

Meaning of place

  1. noun An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
  2. noun A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
  3. noun An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.

Full definition of place

Questions about place in a sentence

How do you use place in a sentence?
Place is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They live at Westminster Place.”
What is a short sentence with place?
“They live at Westminster Place.”
What does place mean?
Place means an open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: place (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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