mecca
Example Sentences
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For decades, Saudi Arabia played an outsize role thanks to its vast oil production and its special status in Islam as home to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Jim, young and idealistic, is chief mate on a steamer carrying 800 pilgrims from Singapore to Mecca.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
"It is a Mecca of sport in my eyes," adds wing Harry Potter, who moved from England to Melbourne as a 10-year-old.
From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025
At 21, he moved to California, widely known at the time as “the Mecca of RC,” Drake said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025
I was admitted to Howard University, but formed and shaped by The Mecca.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.