The word “Virginia” is a proper noun referring to the U.S. state, but in literature, it often appears as a setting, title, or even a character’s name. Writers use it to describe locations, evoke historical contexts, or establish atmosphere. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “Virginia” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Virginia
My name is John Carter; I am better known as Captain Jack Carter of Virginia.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
15 words, 77 characters
My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my father’s home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the civil war.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
28 words, 146 characters
He directed that I remove his body to Virginia without embalming, and that he be laid in an open coffin within a tomb which he previously had had constructed and which, as I later learned, was well ventilated.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
38 words, 210 characters
He remained with us for about a year and then went to New York, where he purchased a little place on the Hudson, where I visited him once a year on the occasions of my trips to the New York market—my father and I owning and operating a string of general stores throughout Virginia at that time.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
58 words, 296 characters
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