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• We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.
• To act above one’s place.
• To know one’s place.
• They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.
• I placed ten dollars on the Lakers beating the Bulls.
• Run Ragged was placed fourth in the race.
• I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.
• The win against the Mets placed the Cowboys in third place in the league.
• He placed the glass on the table.
• Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
• Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
• My word hath no place in you.
• In the first place, I do not understand politics; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third place, you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion[...]
• That's what I said in the first place!
• three decimal places;  the hundreds place
• He lost his place in the national team.
• Here is the place appointed.
• The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
• I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
• Men in great place are thrice servants.
• It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.
• I'm in a strange place at the moment.
• Do you want to come over to my place later?
• We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.
• From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
• He is going back to his native place on vacation.
• They live in Westminster Place.
• Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place[...]
• By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
• When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
• What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?