megalopolitan

Example Sentences

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This “influential and controversial” group, reported the writer, “develop mutant forms of urbanism … which accept the megalopolitan condition with enthusiasm.”

From The Guardian

Flynne’s rural milieu is an America that hasn’t received much attention from science fiction writers, whose settings have tended towards the megalopolitan.

From Washington Post

In the atrium of the fictional Megalopolitan Building at 700-853 Fleet Street there is a “chryselephantine effigy of Lord Copper,” The Beast’s proprietor, “in coronation robes, rising above the throng, on a polygonal malachite pedestal.”

From New York Times

Istanbul, like Cairo, suffers from megalopolitan overpopulation.

From Newsweek

Be it potential terrorists or traffic jams, Los Angeles is prepared It was a record day for disaster, even by the standards of megalopolitan Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive