metropolis

Example Sentences

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Those local leaders said the relatively minor protests, which affected only a few blocks in America's second largest metropolis, could easily be handled by city, county and state law enforcement.

From Barron's

Nevertheless, the protests remain limited in number and concentrated in central Tehran, with shops elsewhere in the sprawling metropolis of 10 million people unaffected.

From Barron's

Davao is a sprawling metropolis on the east of the Philippines' main southern island, Mindanao.

From BBC

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