metro

Example Sentences

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Cotality continues to have transaction delays from the recording office in Wayne County, the most populous county in the Detroit metro area.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The congressional seat Galindo is gunning for represents TX-35, a newly redrawn district that encompasses part of the San Antonio metro area and a slice of rural Texas to the south and east.

From Slate • May 22, 2026

The biggest standout is Celina, Texas, a boomtown on the metro area’s far northern fringes that features master-planned communities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Prices rose most in Elmira, N.Y., a metro just north of the Pennsylvania border, where single-family prices were 22% higher than one year prior.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

You can’t tell the whole metro area our book is about Jackson!

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett