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
  • 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
  • People have called Atlanta the mecca of hip-hop for years now.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bershka is the mecca of cool-girl sh*t, with trending styles for e-girls, coconut girls, and soft girls alike.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Arizona's Sky Islands are known around the world as a birding mecca.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • One of the area businesses that closed in 2020 was Record Mart, a former mecca for music fans.
    Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 11 June 2023
  • Located 12 miles off the shore, dogs and their owners will find the beach mecca of Block Island.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2022
  • Part of the evening’s charm came from the location: Park City’s newest music mecca, the Marquis.
    William Earl, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Nearby Calvert Cliffs State Park is a mecca for fossil hunters.
    Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2021
  • Chicago was the mecca in the ’80s, and then London, thanks to Pete Tong, was getting all of the imports from Chicago.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 June 2022
  • The warm waters of the Greek island of Ithaca have long been a mecca for outdoor swimmers.
    Joe Minihane, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The state was once a mecca for bee diversity, Molumby said, but that abundance is in the past.
    Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For the next couple of decades, the chill spot became a mecca for anyone who wanted to linger into the night, but not over a drink at a bar.
    Eric Kim, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2024
  • Atlanta has been rap’s mecca for the better part of three decades, but now the bridge to the next generation feels unsteady, in part because of losses like these.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Spanning 840 miles, the picturesque coastline is a mecca for surfers, sunbathers and just about everyone in between.
    Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 30 July 2024

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