Sample Sentences formetropolis (editor-reviewed)
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I want to live and work in the middle of a vibrant metropolis.metropolis = large, important city
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The town has become a 21st century metropolis.metropolis = large city
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Before the bus had run another fifty yards on the highway, its destination would be meaningless, and its point of departure changed from metropolis to junkyard. (source)metropolis = a large city
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It was already thronged with the craftsmen and other plebeian inhabitants of the town, in considerable numbers, among whom, likewise, were many rough figures, whose attire of deer-skins marked them as belonging to some of the forest settlements, which surrounded the little metropolis of the colony. (source)metropolis = city
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Its residence halls, teaching centers, and even universities could be found in almost every major metropolis on earth. (source)
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One funeral is generally very much like another in this magnificent metropolis. (source)
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CHAPTER XLII -- AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER'S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS (source)METROPOLIS = city
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He believed in the gradual de-urbanization of modern metropolises by distributing the population more evenly in self-sufficient small towns and villages.† (source)
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She was delighted by the simplicity of voting one's self a metropolis. (source)metropolis = important city
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When he had exhausted all possibilities in the letters, he began attacking the names and addresses on the envelopes, obliterating whole homes and streets, annihilating entire metropolises with careless flicks of his wrist as though he were God.† (source)
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The metropolis, I imagine, is a pretty fair sample of the rest. (source)metropolis = city
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You grant your metropolises all the animals of Eden, but you deny my hamlet the merest Bengal tiger!† (source)
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On our first evening in Rome, we climbed one of the seven hills and looked out over the metropolis.† (source)
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But, in the first place, New York was a metropolis, and perfectly aware that in metropolises it was "not the thing" to arrive early at the opera; and what was or was not "the thing" played a part as important in Newland Archer's New York as the inscrutable totem terrors that had ruled the destinies of his forefathers thousands of years ago.† (source)
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But the police here aren't looking for us in the way police back in the metropolis must be.† (source)
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It's hard to enjoy a metropolis like this if you've got nothing but your hands in your pockets.† (source)
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