principal city
Example Sentences
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An ardent Japanese nationalist, Takaichi was born in Nara, a prefecture famous for the sacred deer that draw thousands of tourists to its principal city each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2025
“It’s staggering and heartbreaking — I don’t know any other way to put it,” said Ken Bernstein, principal city planner at Los Angeles City Planning’s Office of Historic Resources.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2025
Eight of the top 10 have home values higher than in their nearby principal city, and in seven of those markets, the typical home value is more than $150,000.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022
The group of migrants, including many women and children, set out early from Ciudad Hidalgo at the Mexico-Guatemala border and was headed for Tapachula, the principal city in the region.
From Fox News ● Jun. 7, 2019
San Juan, with twenty-five thousand inhabitants, is the principal city.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
