Sample Sentences for
Mecca
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(editor-reviewed)

Mecca as in:  pilgrimage to Mecca

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Non-Muslims are prohibited from entering Mecca.
Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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    Each year millions of Muslim pilgrims visit Mecca -- especially during the Hajj.
    Mecca = holiest city of Islam
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    We are obliged, at least once in our lives, to visit the holy city of Mecca.  (source)
    Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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    I went to a shopping mall with my mother, as she wanted to buy a special burqa to pray in Mecca.  (source)
    Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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    A prayer rug showing a slightly oblong Mecca was nailed to one of the walls.  (source)
    Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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    Islam adopted Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and Bagdad as holy cities.  (source)
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    Perhaps, he thought, it was a religious object, a shrine, such as the Ka'aba in Mecca.  (source)
    Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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    It has blurry photos of the fiery destruction of Jerusalem, Mecca, and the Vatican.  (source)
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    He had named the truck Buraq, the heavenly steed that had carried the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem during the Night Journey.  (source)
    Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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    He told me too how, in Indonesia, he had been converted to Islam by his friend Bami the cook: giving up pork, fasting during Ramadan, praying to Mecca five times a day.  (source)
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    In a long row the dirt huts all kneel facing east, as if praying for the staved-off collapse—not toward Mecca exactly but east toward the village's one road and the river and behind all that, the pink sunrise surprise.  (source)
    Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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    The Zen Gnostic Church was expanding exponentially and I became a true believer, appearing on HTV talk shows and searching for my Places of Power with all of the devoutness of a pre-Hegira Muslim pilgrimaging to Mecca.  (source)
    Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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    While Hassan knelt on the concrete outside, facing Mecca, Colin went to the bathroom...  (source)
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    Any earth will do, but these were specially fashioned of clay from Mecca.  (source)
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mecca as in:  a mecca for young artists

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With its stunning beaches and vibrant nightlife, Miami has become a mecca for tourists from around the globe.
mecca = a place that attracts many visitors
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    The annual Comic-Con event in San Diego is a mecca for comic book enthusiasts, attracting thousands of visitors each year.
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    This was why, in the decades since the simulation's launch, the city had become a kind of high-tech Mecca.  (source)
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    The mall was a mecca for a newborn street rat.  (source)
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    Colorful azalea bushes bloomed like explosions all around this mecca of fast food.  (source)
    mecca = a place that attracts many visitors
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    Not long ago Westwood Village had been an island of quaint charm in the more turbulent sea of the city around it, a mecca for shoppers and theatergoers.  (source)
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    Of course, the sights I'm most interested in seeing—besides Andrew, of course—are the Oxfams where I can find some undiscovered treasure, and maybe this place I've heard about called Topshop, which is like the British equivalent of T.J. Maxx, or maybe H&M, which we don't actually have in Michigan, but that I've heard about, of course, as a fashion lover's mecca.  (source)
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    In many ways Colorado Springs today is what Los Angeles was fifty years ago — a mecca for the disenchanted middle class, a harbinger of cultural trends, a glimpse of the future.  (source)
    mecca = place that attracts many visitors
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    Chthonia had become the gunters' Mecca.  (source)
    Mecca = a place that attracts many visitors
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    His baby sister, Mecca, lay asleep in her crib.  (source)
    Mecca = someone's name in this story
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    Mecca's milk was cold; her food was fresh; and Rameck's money, as well as that opportunity, was gone.  (source)
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    Mecca wasn't even two years old.  (source)
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