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relating to or characteristic of a large city- in the metropolitan area
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Metropolitan Opera
- The Metropolitan Water District
- ...their conversation is exciting and strange; the absence of all local narrowness both in the host and his chosen society gives a metropolitan, almost a cosmopolitan freedom and largeness to the talk.Charlotte Bronte -- The Professor
- The exchange into the metropolitan monastery was an important event in Sergius's life.Leo Tolstoy -- Father Sergius
- Indeed,strong disapproval of such behavior was expressed by all the major networks and large metropolitan dailies.Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
- Cars trying to enter the city have already started lining up at the tollbooths of the Metropolitan Expressway.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- We have seen the magnificent grandeur and the magnificent achievements of one of the great metropolitan cities of the South.Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- Not that I have anything personal against death from our vantage point high atop Metropolitan County Stadium.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- It certainly didn't qualify me to work on Baltimore's great metropolitan daily, the Sun.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- At first the room reminded her of one of the period reconstruction displays in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
- Mutsuhiro's photograph was distributed throughout police ranks in the Tokyo metropolitan area and four prefectures.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Indeed, from the direction of the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Korean money funnels in mostly through the dozens of churches across the metropolitan area.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- Nor was he lonely later in the evening, in his lodge at the Metropolitan.Willa Cather -- Paul's Case
- I found it just like Nero to go claiming major metropolitan areas that clearly belonged to me.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- I mean. we lost the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the British Museum, the Forbidden Palace and the Louvre in one day.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- In the first half of the last century there was, in fact, a flourishing metropolitan culture in many parts of Eurpe, not least in Germany.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- The Reco-Metropolitan Company, Sheridan Square, New York.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum