How to Use proper noun in a Sentence

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• Not like, a proper noun place, but a place all the same.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 May 2022
• And the characters in a proper noun like Boston (波士顿, bōshìdùn) or the US (美国, měiguó) do not mean the same thing once split apart.
  — John Keefe, Quartz, 27 Dec. 2019
• Change a few proper nouns and Henson describes my son Mike.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• It gets tripped up by unusual or foreign words, acronyms and proper nouns.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
• Next month will mark 100 years since one of the most unusual team names in college sports--the Wonder Boys--first appeared as a proper noun in print.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2020
• Every single proper noun in the crypto universe would be at home in the MaddAddam world.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• Above all is just the precision, the proper nouns and compound German nouns and the painterly attention to detail.
  — Daniel Torday, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• The hearings leading to the articles of impeachment introduced a few proper nouns that cannot be found in the dictionary.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019
• Edward and Annie liked inventing proper nouns for their world.
  — Hilary Leichter, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• Sometimes that means placing a proper noun closer to a quote, or doing away with an existing headline.
  — Ryan Bradley, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2023
• This essence of a sociality is why Twitter appeals to black people, so much so that there’s a subset of the platform with its own proper noun (Black Twitter).
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• English isn’t widely spoken, but sign language and proper nouns go a long way, and locals will happily point you in the right direction.
  — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
• Turning the proper noun into a verb, it’s meant to portray the coach who is being investigated as the victim and the victim who had the courage to come forward as the perpetrator.
  — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
• Norris immediately protested to the judges: Nemesis, the goddess of divine retribution and revenge, was technically a proper noun and not an eligible word.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
• In my tests, StoryToolkitAI does a pretty solid job at figuring out speaker timing, transcribing, recognizing proper nouns, and placing those subtitles at the correct moment, although there are almost always some errors.
  — Chris Person, The Verge, 14 Mar. 2023
• One was antonomasia, the usually derisive practice of describing an individual by a certain characteristic, then making it into a proper noun.
  — Lynda Robinson, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
• Macros are small computer programs that perform mundane editing tasks in Microsoft Word, such as correcting capitalization, inserting comments and identifying inconsistencies among proper nouns.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024