urban center

Example Sentences

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From this open-air vantage, you can truly appreciate Chiang Mai’s moated old city, more overgrown village than urban center.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

They’re the only ones that reside in the urban center of Las Vegas.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

“One of the lessons from those years,” Mr. Hulen said, “was you don’t have to live in a big urban center to expect extraordinary things from your local newsroom.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

It’s a $200-million, 50-mile-long pipeline system that would move water from the California Aqueduct in California City — over arid desert mountains — to a storage tank in the urban center of Ridgecrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

Walls had been constructed out of wood, scrap metal, cars, anything big and strong enough to protect what was inside: a mostly burned-out urban center.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner