urban center

Example Sentences

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Soldiers pointed out how that dividing line follows the intersection of Shujaiya’s leveled blocks with the damaged but largely standing urban center.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Once a temperate seasonal beachfront outpost, the city has added 1,000 new residents over the past decade and evolved into a busy, increasingly expensive all-season urban center.

From New York Times • May 13, 2024

It’s a $200-million, 50-mile-long pipeline system that would move water from the California Aqueduct in California City — over arid desert mountains — to a storage tank in the urban center of Ridgecrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

As people, we are all shaped by the neighborhoods we grew up in, whether it was a bustling urban center or the quiet countryside.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2023

Walls had been constructed out of wood, scrap metal, cars, anything big and strong enough to protect what was inside: a mostly burned-out urban center.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner