metropolis
Example Sentences
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About 40% of metropolises had more deaths than births, and rely on newcomers to grow.
Ms. Paces’s account of Prague’s transformation into a burgeoning Czech metropolis over the course of the 19th century is hazy.
Residents described a tense, surreal atmosphere across the metropolis of 17 million people.
Efficient urban planning has transformed what was once an island of fishing villages into a gleaming metropolis of high-rises.
From BBC
An estimated 40,000 Spiritualist believers resided in that metropolis already, but with a growing population of half a million people, there was plenty of opportunity to grow the spirit cause as well.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
