on the map

phrase

: in a position of prominence or fame

… had put the fledgling university on the map.

—Lon Tinkle

Examples of on the map in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Cape Verde Cape Verde put itself on the map when its team came heart-wrenchingly close to beating Argentina, in what would’ve been the biggest football upset in years. — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 15 July 2026

What first put Big Sky on the map for the very wealthy was the 1997 opening of the Yellowstone Club, an ultra-exclusive real estate development with an 18-hole golf course and its own private ski area. — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026

Humphrey’s remakes of the real content that’s impossible to believe people choose to put online are what put her on the map. — Leslie Horn Peterson, Time, 14 July 2026

The approximate perimeter is shown as a black line on the map above. — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 13 July 2026

Rhymes for on the map

• handicap
• overlap
• thunderclap
• wiretap
• app
• cap
• chap
• clap
• crap
• flap
• frap
• gap