metropolitan area
Example Sentences
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In the Nice Côte d'Azur metropolitan area, dense development and heavy tourism make the challenge especially demanding.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
In Tirana's metropolitan area alone, there are almost four hundred dental clinics – and most of them are in the city centre.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Heyward grew up in the Atlanta metropolitan area, playing on the East team, and Freeman was an Orange County native, representing the West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
On Friday, attention turns to August consumer price figures for the Tokyo metropolitan area that will indicate if higher oil prices triggered by the Middle East conflict are filtering through to broader consumer costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Korean money funnels in mostly through the dozens of churches across the metropolitan area.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
