metropolitan
Example Sentences
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The program is also underway in the metropolitan areas of Phoenix; Austin, Texas; and Atlanta.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
"Running around on these things in densely packed metropolitan areas? It would be mental."
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
But the scale of the demonstrations — stretching from major international metropolitan hubs to small towns in rural America — signals a level of mobilization that is increasingly difficult to ignore.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
And ask any Chicago White Sox fan if playing in a large metropolitan area guarantees success.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The church was a strange little white frame building stuck up on a hill behind the police station, built when the city was a country town instead of part of the metropolitan Washington sprawl.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
Vocabulary lists containing metropolitan
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