metropolis
Example Sentences
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The U.S. winners range from small cities such as Cape Coral, Fla., to major metropolises like San Francisco; many are tax havens.
From MarketWatch
This show examines his relationship to the metropolis, how it influenced the forms, materials and concepts of his creations, and the ways his art gave back to the place he called home.
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” casts Minneapolis as progressive and neighborly, a bustling metropolis located between stereotypical Midwestern patriarchal stubbornness and a feminist future.
From Salon
Her immediate goal was simply to find freedom that the liberal metropolis had embraced after the war.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms. Allen concedes their regionalism but argues that they were wiser for understanding that a “provincial backwater offers as full a panoply of human folly, nobility, tragedy, and absurdity as any great metropolis.”
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