Place

Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place

They live at Westminster Place.

He is going back to his native place on vacation.

From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

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

My Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls, in familiar conversation, her "place" in Lincolnshire.

Do you want to come over to my place later?

Which place hurts the most?

Place,... (2) a jakes, or house of ease.

‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’... ‘She means the little girls room.’

In that same place thou hast appointed me, To-morrow truly will I meete with thee.

What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?

When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

I lost my place when you interrupted me.

I'm in a strange place at the moment.

It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.

I know my place as I would they should do theirs.

Escalus.Esc.I shall desire you, Sir, to giue me leaue To haue free speech with you; and it concernes me To looke into the bottome of my place : A powre I haue, but of what strength and nature, I am not yet instructed.

Men in great place are thrice servants.

The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.

We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.

to win a bet on a horse for place

He lost his place in the national team.

three decimal places;  the hundreds place

That's what I said in the first place!

a. 1788, Mather Byles, quoted in The Life of James Otis by William Tudor In the first place, I do not understand politics; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third place, you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion […]

My word hath no place in you.

He placed the glass on the table.

to place someone on a pedestal

His life vvas nigh vnto deaths dore yplaſte, / And thred-bare cote, and cobled ſhoes hee vvare, […]

Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—[…]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

The Cowboys placed third in the league.

Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.

In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.

I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.

The librarian was placed at home by her neighbor at the time of the murder.

We were all focused intently on the triangular conference call speaker in the middle of the table. President Trump's communications team was placing a call to President Volodymyr Zelenksy of Ukraine, and we were here to listen.

to place a call

to place an order

to place an ad in the newspaper

to place a bid

to place a bet

to place a wager

I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.

They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.

Designated as the core of the southern forces were: the 5th Division, which was recalled from northern French Indochina to Shanghai, placed under the direct control of Imperial Headquarters, and, on October 12, ordered to “train primarily for landing operations” (Imperial Headquarters Army Order 467); the Imperial Guard Division, which was ordered on October 22 to assemble at Shant’ou (Swatow); the 48th Division, reorganized on October 22 from the Taiwan Mixed Brigade and ordered to advance to Hainan island; and the 18th Division at Canton.

My workplace places a high premium on team spirit.

She places little value on religion.