metropolis
Example Sentences
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Behind us, the vast metropolis of Beijing has yet to wake.
From BBC
“Heat” broke many of the rules about how art interprets the city, recoloring the metropolis and discovering beauty in many of our most demonized neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times
He uses this as an example of us "securing a brighter future for both animals, and us, too" in our unique metropolis - the world's greenest major city.
From BBC
In the cracked and carved metropolis of Los Angeles, there are as many stories as there are people, but there is only one binding, essential truth.
From Los Angeles Times
Scaled up, the chip industry drinks like a metropolis of several million people, except instead of flushing toilets they’re rinsing transistors measured in atoms.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
