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    Use "metropolis" in a sentence

    metropolis example sentences

    metropolis


    1. in the gutters of the metropolis, he woke one morning and decided that the mountain


    2. Ten years after she died, nine years after he fled the village and soused himself in the gutters of the metropolis, he woke one morning and decided that the mountain overlooking his old home would be the best place for him


    3. Cyberia, unaccustomed as she was to seeing the metropolis in its daytime apparel, walked open-mouthed past dingy basement flat windows, down long, dark alleyways and visibly felt herself shrink before the impressive, classically styled porticos of ancient institutional temples


    4. Cyberia, unaccustomed as she was to seeing the metropolis in its


    5. workman of any kind in that metropolis who does not earn more than twenty


    6. It has the population of a megalopolis in the area of a metropolis


    7. Her operations had grown over the years to include three locations in different parts of the metropolis


    8. Steve and-Linda were going to enjoy the best this metropolis could offer, and they weren't disappointed


    9. A lot of them might just be losers, maladjusted to life in a decaying metropolis that covered fifteen hundred light years from end to end, and with branches another six hundred long in several cases


    10. In fact, it can be safely proven by virtue of experimentation that these are in fact devices of a highly evolved civilization from an ancient past that perished long ago, leaving in its wake nothing but seemingly nondescript memorabilia as the remains of a monumental metropolis located in the Widelands

    11. A natural deep-water harbour showed why the city was here, a small metropolis plopped right down into the midst of huge ruins, crumbling walls, and pagan temples brooding in the rarified air


    12. Despite being only the size of a small town, Windhoek was in fact a little city, an authentic metropolis - a meeting point for people from many parts of Europe, especially Germany, Israel and France


    13. A metropolis on the Eastern Continent at which the


    14. That pleasant metropolis has been called the “Venice of America”


    15. humorously said that two people check into that hotel and sometimes three or four check out… In that same subdivision of the celebrated metropolis, another famous hotel, Hotel Princesa, has also been operational for quite some time


    16. From one of the peaks sightseers can contemplate a faithful panoramic, but not quite spectacular view of a flat and orderly metropolis of three hundred and twenty-five thousand inhabitants, the second most populated city in all of New Zealand


    17. Built in the environs of various lakes, that charming metropolis spreads through pleasant hills and scenic valleys


    18. That is a necessity because Dunedin is a metropolis very spacious in area and ambulances cannot provide the fast service that is required at times


    19. With their houses decorated with iron reeds, certain areas of the metropolis remind sightseers of the elegance of New Orleans


    20. That lovely metropolis can boast of an annual average of three hundred and forty-two sunny days and forty-seven inches of precipitation, the rainiest months being April, May and June

    21. With more than ten million inhabitants, Metro Manila is, without any doubt, a delightful, showy and relaxing metropolis


    22. How I ache to escape this metropolis; how I long to dwell in my unspoilt Elysium


    23. First capital of a united China for three thousand years, it is nowadays a metropolis with two and a half million inhabitants and very limited contacts with the exterior


    24. They arrived at Wuxi, modernized metropolis of more than three thousand years history and four and a half million


    25. The tension of marching through the metropolis, running for my life in the Coptic city, and crawling through kilometres of caves has sapped me of all my energy


    26. Gunshots pepper the metropolis


    27. Yet the ferals' evil baying and cackling eventually overpower the muffled cries for help, until only the predators' calls dominate the metropolis


    28. Sad, spent, squalid—this is the metropolis


    29. Life is thriving in this little ecosystem, in the middle of this dying metropolis


    30. Some say that what we are seeing is just the tip of a superstructure stretching under the entire metropolis

    31. The Facility's functioning days are numbered, along with everything else in this metropolis


    32. To the north, south, and west, a ninety-metre-high natural rocky ridge isolates the cemetery from the rest of the metropolis; to the east, the Pacific Ocean stretches until the horizon


    33. A puppy is scavenging through rubbish piles in the metropolis


    34. That must have been the hospital closest to their ranch in Villagreen, which is a suburb of that great metropolis of Kim which is on the U


    35. After a winter sojourn to stir up business and quell a union organizing drive up north, I told my boss that the only hot place in the Duluth-Superior, WI, metropolis was an indoor rink devoted to curling, that occult sport where contestants push a heavy stone toward a far-off goal and team members sweep the ice ahead of the slowly sliding object to ease its course to bump other stones out of a score


    36. I’m an experienced government financial officer, and even I’m flabbergasted at the intense concentration of wealth that your nation now represents! You could build half of the city of Bojoston for the cost of what you see here, and that metropolis is home to twenty-three million people!”


    37. It was indeed an extinct volcano capped with a steel dome, situated beside a vast metropolis whose suburbs covered the lower half of it’s slopes on that side


    38. The driver looked east toward the the metropolis


    39. Ecglaf's town appeared more of a metropolis than their previous stop


    40. And look at all the stores he'd have to choose from, far more even than in the fabled metropolis of Gettrick

    41. It was seldom cool in this tropical metropolis, and she saw no harm in his running around the house naked


    42. metropolis and that he never hesitated to grab the adventure when circumstances dictated


    43. 4 As might have been expected, such a versatile and aggressive man could not thus function for six months in the world's metropolis without being approached by numerous persons who desired to secure his services in connection with some business or, more often, for some project of teaching, social reform, or religious movement


    44. A businessman in an eastern metropolis was about to fail


    45. When his father began to curtail his freedom, he left the slum and shifted to the pavements of the metropolis


    46. The announcer went on to say that this was their forty-third World Series championship, putting them one up on the Metropolis Yankees


    47. The rising mean sea level had initially been combated with the raising of walls and sea defences around the docks but, at some point, the attempt to protect the coastline had been abandoned and the harbour facilities had been raised on concrete pillars, leaving the surrounding flooded metropolis crumbling into the saltwater


    48. beyond those mountains he could see, was the metropolis of Las


    49. Now the gloaming was electric with tension and worry, for news of the empty fishing boats had spread by word of mouth to every last living soul in the great metropolis


    50. He then contemplated the arduous task of a long distance relationship and ultimately the absence of her love and friendship in the bustling metropolis of Miami









































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    Synonyms for "metropolis"

    city metropolis urban center municipality

    "metropolis" definitions

    a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts


    people living in a large densely populated municipality