Sentence examples for told a place from inspiring English sources

It is, we are constantly told, a place where car bombs go off in crowded markets, beheadings get recorded in grainy video, and nuclear weapons are assembled in frightening proximity to violent extremists.

Cosmo claims that after asking its readers what they look for in their method of transportation, it was told "a place for impromptu karaoke performances, last-minute wardrobe changes, dramatic gossip sessions and emergency lunch-hour kips".

She said she visited the Brooklyn complex and was told a place was available.

Driving home, it occurred to me that Carma-no-geddon had presented Los Angeles with a stunning vision of what it could be (and once was, I'm told): a place where every decision of how to spend one's leisure time, or where or when to schedule a business meeting, is not fraught with estimations of the likely effect of traffic on one's plans, risk-reward calculations, and visits to Google Maps.

For others, Haiti exists in tales parents tell — a place they long to visit and now wonder if they will ever see.

To illustrate his point, Schelling cited the example of strangers who are told to meet in Manhattan on a given day, without being told a specific place.

Meanwhile, in a separate development, BBC Wales has been told a meeting took place on Monday night between Roger Lewis and a senior representative of Regional Rugby Wales.

But a man was killed, I am told, in a place where I saw Something; a man was killed, I am told, and I saw something.

We had been told about a place where they had failed to do their job properly.

But the stories that are told about a place can enable, or disable, the ability to empathize with those who reside there.

Good or bad, sexist or not, hate-filled or naive, it was a joke, told in a place for jokes.