How to Use proper noun in a Sentence

proper noun

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  • Stephens’s writing leans hard on the proper nouns, as well as the fashion in-jokes.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 May 2025
  • It gets tripped up by unusual or foreign words, acronyms and proper nouns.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Other proper nouns, like the Darkhold, can be safely tuned out.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Isn’t a planet, by definition, always a proper noun?
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • In general, lemmas exclude proper nouns (names of people, places, …).
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Every single proper noun in the crypto universe would be at home in the MaddAddam world.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • But the proper noun only came along relatively recently.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Anytime the viewer might get tripped up by the proper nouns, Villeneuve is there to strike them with the power of Herbert’s universe.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The chaos around The Trade (proper noun) masks a super interesting Lakers team.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Issues with proper nouns, accents and context are still being addressed by developers.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike the overheated adjectives that preceded it, this bit of legerdemain is a proper noun.
    — Bruce Stockler, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • In Wikipedia, the word is capped as a proper noun, but the Washington Post lowercases it in most uses.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The hospital morphs baby into a proper noun and, in doing so, quasi-anthropomorphizes it—human, sure, but on the cusp.
    — Erica Stern june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
  • YouTube Golf may not be an official subsection of the platform, but the rapidly growing genre has become a proper noun among viewers.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rev made more errors than Otter related to proper nouns (six) but was much better at capitalization and punctuation.
    — PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2025
  • But capitalization is sparsely employed in the Spanish language, which uses the lowercase for many proper nouns and titles.
    — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 17 Oct. 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
  • For comparison, Otter returned a document with three errors related to proper nouns and place names but many more errors in punctuation.
    — PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2025
  • To avoid this, instruct your AI tool to use sentence case, vary sentence structure, capitalize only proper nouns, be assertive, and craft unique introductions and conclusions.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • 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
  • According to the current contract, which runs through 2029, Fox gets to claim the first three games off the Big Ten schedule (that’s where The Game, proper noun, keeps falling).
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Taylor is investigating a Santa cookie at the Clotz Cookie Factory (one of several proper nouns in this film that have no discernible origin) and looks disappointed.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025

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