metropolis
Example Sentences
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This show examines his relationship to the metropolis, how it influenced the forms, materials and concepts of his creations, and the ways his art gave back to the place he called home.
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” casts Minneapolis as progressive and neighborly, a bustling metropolis located between stereotypical Midwestern patriarchal stubbornness and a feminist future.
From Salon
Her immediate goal was simply to find freedom that the liberal metropolis had embraced after the war.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms. Allen concedes their regionalism but argues that they were wiser for understanding that a “provincial backwater offers as full a panoply of human folly, nobility, tragedy, and absurdity as any great metropolis.”
Lagos faces one of the most severe housing shortages in Africa and homelessness is rife in Nigeria's largest city by population but smallest by landmass -- set to become the world’s largest metropolis by 2100.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
