How to Use mecca in a Sentence

mecca

noun

• The valley is a mecca for wine lovers.
• The town has become a mecca for tourists.
• It’s taken 40 fights for Bud’s star to come to Vegas, the mecca for the sport.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• For the rest, the area lost its main draw in 2014, when the art-supply mecca Pearl Paint closed.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• Yet over the past six years, WCC has become a mecca of sorts.
  — Will Graves, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July 2021
• It’s the mecca of fine wine and craft beer, oysters and crabs, sourdough and salmon.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2020
• Craig doesn’t have roots here, and the city isn’t usually name-checked as a mecca for the genre.
  — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• The East Valley is home of one of the world’s largest horse industries – a mecca of sorts.
  — Tj Gibson, azcentral, 18 June 2018
• Union has long been a mecca for anyone who wants to stay on the cutting edge of style.
  — Samuel Hine, GQ, 30 May 2018
• Hills and rain Why did the city become such a mecca for tunnels, both large and small?
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 30 May 2018
• But a recent rule change by HKEX has made the city a mecca for biotech listings.
  — Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• In August, 1991, the shopping mecca known as Gurnee Mills opened to the public.
  — Wendy Fox Weber, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• Robin and Bruce left their bikes at home, even though Utah is known as a mountain-bike mecca.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Dec. 2021
• Del Mar dips its toes in the sand on the front porch of a seaside mecca topping 3.3 million.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
• The studio has become a bit of a mecca for riders who don’t live in NYC.
  — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 14 Nov. 2018
• People have called Atlanta the mecca of hip-hop for years now.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• On the other end of the spectrum is the tech mecca, Austin, which appears to be the most attractive city over the past year.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 12 June 2019
• There's a lot to love about the fleeting mecca of online deals that is Amazon Prime Day.
  — Amanda Randone, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
• The park is the mecca for San Gabriel Valley peafowl and boasts a population of at least 100 birds.
  — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2023
• Where to try it: Utah's Lake Powell is a boating mecca.
  — Brittany Loggins, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
• The sign is cemented in the region’s lore as a mystery, a mecca and a reminder of home.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 2 Jan. 2025
• The mountain’s 65 sheer peaks are also a mecca for rock climbers and hikers.
  — Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
• Where to Eat With views of the Venice sign, this all-day eatery is a mecca for surfers, skateboarders, locals, and tourists alike.
  — Vogue, 21 June 2022
• One of his 2016 campaign themes was to make the state a tourist mecca in hopes of creating thousands of jobs.
  — USA TODAY, 5 June 2019
• Orlando has been a mecca for long-snappers in the past.
  — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• New York City was a mecca for TV during the industry’s golden age of the 1950s.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• The tony new tone to Tasmania doesn’t mean the island is no longer a mecca for outdoorsy types.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Dec. 2019
• And then there’s Bahia, the mecca of the Afro-Brazilian experience.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 16 July 2023
• Ho’okipa beach is the windsurfing and wing-foil mecca, drawing talent from around the world.
  — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 29 Dec. 2022
• There was also the Folklife Center, a whole store converted into a mecca of everything folk.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025