citify

Wohlen had only begun its drive to citify the planet.

From The Man Who Played to Lose by Laurence M. Janifer

You're 'n want o' sunthin' light an' cute, 10Rattlin' an' shrewd an' kin' o' jingleish, An' wish, pervidin' it 'ould suit, I'd take an' citify my English.

From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations by James Russell Lowell

You're 'n want o' sunthin' light an' cute,   Rattlin' an' shrewd an' kin' o' jingleish, 10 An' wish, pervidin' it 'ould suit,   I'd take an' citify my English.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

You 're 'n want o' sunthin' light an' cute, Rattlin' an' shrewd an' kin' o' jingleish, An' wish, pervidin' it 'ould suit, I 'd take an' citify my English.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

As they fan out, we sense that they are never more themselves than when unencumbered by, and uprooted from, their citified habits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Even now, few Woodstock locals know the precise location, though it is not far from the storied town that the citified Mr. Bowie derided on his first visit in 2002 as “too cute for words.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

Bengtson guesses that many other films were shot in the vicinity too — one of the only citified corners in an early Hollywood that still mostly didn’t look urban.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2021

Produced by country music explorer Sturgill Simpson, “Country Squire” is full of lessons learned on the “country music highway” about camper retirement, citified country boys and the hard work of commitment.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2019

“Sure. Sure. Nothing citified, I’m sorry to say, but— Esther!”

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

It results in the citifying of the country with cubistic signboards, barbershops, women in new-style clothes.

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