Sentence examples for spots on the map from inspiring English sources

Afghanistan, one of the most blighted spots on the map and where Osama bin Laden is said to be holed up, is a place where outsiders -- in this case the former Soviet Union even more than the West -- has a lot to answer for, Mr. Khalidi said.

Australia and Antarctica were still largely blank spots on the map.

Creative people don't follow the crowds; they seek out the blank spots on the map.

It also lets you tack icons of everyday PC documents -- digital photos, spreadsheets of animal sightings, journal entries, whatever -- to particular spots on the map.

In 2009, Dutton published a version of the dissertation as "Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Hidden World".

Another expert popped up wit a map, instead of using place names, he simply pointed to spots on the map & said "Here" or "There.

You're beholden to no one, so find a spot on the map where you've never been and go there!

The concerns there are similar: environmental damage and cultural degradation on the one hand versus economic development and the spot on the map that comes from being a tourist magnet on the other.

But Quarrington's Sin City is less a real spot on the map than a fairy-tale desert outpost with a Las Vegas theme, one curiously depopulated of all but Jurgen and Rudolfo's ragged circle of freaks and geeks.

A defined spot on the map of humanity.

"It was an empty spot on the map," Heath says.