Sentence examples for marked a spot from inspiring English sources
They had one problem: the treasure itself was inaccessible, for X marked a spot that seemed to be directly beneath a highway built long since Schultz's time.
I usually play second base, and I didn't appreciate one new male player who marked a spot in the dust and told me where to stand.
He sniffed bushes and stained storefronts with the measured attentiveness of a research scientist, flirted with passers-by, and on occasion raised his ears and tail, marked a spot, then kicked his hind legs while growling, barking and asserting his dominance over some generally long-gone canine competition.
Then someone suggested marking a spot on the floor with yellow tape and insisting that the machines were always kept there.
The diagram marks a spot on the left wing, eerily close to where a piece of debris may have struck Columbia on liftoff.
Nascar marks a spot on the track where the leader can accelerate after a caution period, but Stewart's competitors said he gunned it way too early.
In their audacious pursuit of astonishing height -- to glorify a god, immortalize a builder, mark a spot or lure a tenant -- architects have created pyramids, domes, minarets, campaniles, spires and skyscrapers.
Why too was so much space given over to a map of Southeast Asia on which 928 colored flags are pinned, each one marking a spot where missing prisoners of war were supposedly spotted?
On West Street in North Oakland, a short residential block within the borders of Oakland's gang injunction zone, a bloodstain marks a spot on the sidewalk where a woman was killed last month in a drive-by shooting.
A few years ago, General Pinochet had O'Higgins' remains moved from the military academy to a site opposite the Presidential palace, where soldiers guard an eternal flame that marks a spot called the Altar of the Fatherland.
But he said he had learned from mistakes early in his career that it was not always helpful to presume to have answers, to mark a spot on the calendar.
