metropolitan area

Example Sentences

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The Hartford metropolitan area, with a population of 1.2 million, is the most cutthroat home buying market in the U.S., according to Zillow’s 2026 ranking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Last week, Amazon said it would start providing one-hour deliveries to parts of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

More than half of the cases come from Guadalajara's metropolitan area.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

And New York City is the most expensive metropolitan area outside of a clutch of California cities and Seattle, according to Commerce Department data.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 16, 2026

Jesse couldn’t have found a less appropriate community if he’d asked AltaVista: “What’s the worst place in the greater Chicago metropolitan area for two nineteen-year-old lads from Idaho to live?”

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz