How to Use proper noun in a Sentence

proper noun

noun
  • 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
  • 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

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