city

Example Sentences

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"The city is electric," a fan told the BBC earlier in the week.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

For the last decade, 55-year-old Ponni has sat on a roadside in Bengaluru, the city known as India's Silicon Valley, making flower garlands.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

A small army of staff and contractors pour into Starbase every day from neighboring areas, including Brownsville, the biggest city in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and historically one of the poorest places in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Some city leaders had also dinged the county for misusing homelessness money generated from a previous sales tax and argued this new pot of dollars would be handled no better.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The wind died down, and a fog slowly rolled over the city, shrouding the streets, but I was on familiar ground, and I knew the way.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu