metro

Example Sentences

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Some of the nation’s priciest real estate often means growth gets pushed out to metro Boston’s fringes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Prices rose most in Elmira, N.Y., a metro just north of the Pennsylvania border, where single-family prices were 22% higher than one year prior.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Waze, a GPS navigation company, is teaming up with Waymo to use the company’s self-driving cars to detect potholes in Los Angeles and four other major metro areas.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Viewers in the NYC metro area will also get Yankees games every Wednesday night.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

The entire state of Idaho had one area code; the Chicago metro area alone had three.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz