How to Use mecca in a Sentence

mecca

noun
  • The valley is a mecca for wine lovers.
  • The town has become a mecca for tourists.
  • It’s taken 40 fights for Bud’s star to come to Vegas, the mecca for the sport.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
  • Craig doesn’t have roots here, and the city isn’t usually name-checked as a mecca for the genre.
    Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • People have called Atlanta the mecca of hip-hop for years now.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • The park is the mecca for San Gabriel Valley peafowl and boasts a population of at least 100 birds.
    oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Where to try it: Utah's Lake Powell is a boating mecca.
    Brittany Loggins, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
  • Where to Eat With views of the Venice sign, this all-day eatery is a mecca for surfers, skateboarders, locals, and tourists alike.
    Vogue, 21 June 2022
  • And then there’s Bahia, the mecca of the Afro-Brazilian experience.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 16 July 2023
  • Ho’okipa beach is the windsurfing and wing-foil mecca, drawing talent from around the world.
    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Bershka is the mecca of cool-girl sh*t, with trending styles for e-girls, coconut girls, and soft girls alike.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Arizona's Sky Islands are known around the world as a birding mecca.
    Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • One of the area businesses that closed in 2020 was Record Mart, a former mecca for music fans.
    Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 11 June 2023
  • Located 12 miles off the shore, dogs and their owners will find the beach mecca of Block Island.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2022
  • Part of the evening’s charm came from the location: Park City’s newest music mecca, the Marquis.
    William Earl, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Chicago was the mecca in the ’80s, and then London, thanks to Pete Tong, was getting all of the imports from Chicago.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 June 2022
  • The state was once a mecca for bee diversity, Molumby said, but that abundance is in the past.
    Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Atlanta being the mecca of hip-hop is still fairly new.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • As long-distance freight shipments have surged in the past 20 years, Chicago has remained a mecca for both more trains and more trucks.
    John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • But where better to push my limits than Yosemite, a climbing mecca.
    Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • A few months later, in the next strip over, the Katy Grand development completed the first phase of its own food mecca.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 15 Nov. 2022
  • San Diego is a mecca for rooftop solar, with some of the highest installation rates in the nation.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
  • It’s not located in a shopping mecca like Union Square.
    Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2023
  • During the last two decades, Los Angeles has become a mecca of sports medicine.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Santa Barbara is a mecca for seafood, including the prized sea urchin.
    Elycia Rubin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Mibu has become a mecca for chefs around the world, who come out of the experience changed forever.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Buff City Soap is a mecca for handmade, natural soap products, and its Mermaid Soap is the best hand soap for kids.
    Tabitha Britt, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Dec. 2023
  • One speaker said the park has become a mecca for transients and homeless people.
    Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The gorgeous San Clemente coast is a mecca for swimmers, longboarders, campers, and hikers.
    Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2023
  • She was raised in northern Vermont next to Kingdom Trails, a mecca for skiers and mountain bikers.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2024

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