How to Use city in a Sentence

city

noun

• The city is working to make the streets safer.
• All of the crowds are in those first cities, none of the crowds are in the second cities.
  — Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 17 Feb. 2024
• The house was a short walk from the historic city center.
  — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
• These prices may be among the highest per square foot of any city in the world.
  — David Kaufman, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2023
• The church and its pastor, Jose Manuel Castro, faces up to $4,000 in city fines, the suit said.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 24 Mar. 2024
• The train would make stops for up to three hours in the two cities most worth visiting along the route.
  — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2023
• But New York is the only city in the country that has a right to shelter.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• Who doesn’t both hate and love their city in equal measure?
  — Avantika Shankar, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2023
• May the Good Lord bless the city of Chicago and the men and women who serve and protect this great city.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2023
• Debris from cities and villages is brought here in dump trucks at all hours of the day.
  — Nicole Tung, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
• About 370 acres of trees were felled to create a buffer zone between the fire and city.
  — Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• Curfews put in place in other cities have shown us that.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• On one side of Kern Avenue in the small city of McFarland is the library.
  — Tim Arango Carlos Jaramillo, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
• Hand in hand with this influx comes the fostering of culture—a city needs a soul.
  — Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2023
• How would that sit with Irish Catholic voters in cities like Chicago?
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024
• Mazatlán has become a bustling resort city filled with tourists all year round.
  — Janet Blaser, Contributor, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2024
• Jiaxing is a city on the eastern coast of China, just to the west of Shanghai.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• That’s more than any other U.S. city, and puts L.A. in a strong position to keep leading the way.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• The city of Los Angeles has whole micro-economies built on awards shows.
  — Mary McNamaraculture Columnist and Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Contracts or purchases above that amount must get the approval of the city board.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2022
• Those words were presented the length of a city block along the side of the Cleveland Press’ downtown building.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024
• The crime has now leaked out from the capital and started to rise in other cities and in the countryside.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
• Some residents of this metro Phoenix city are up in arms over a new QuikTrip.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
• Many cities have Christmas tree recycling programs in which the trees are chipped and turned to mulch.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• By the end of March, city staff presents a trial budget to council members.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• To the south, the old manufacturing city of Fort Smith has lived in that shadow.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
• By the campaign’s end, the Mongols controlled some twenty Rus’ cities.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Protests against the regime also erupted in Paris, Istanbul and other cities around the world.
  — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• The northern lights are easiest to spot in clear weather and in places where the skies are darker—away from sources of light pollution like cities.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
• This includes decisions big and small — from burning a city to the ground or keeping it intact, or choosing to bring an item back to a shop, only for the owner to name it after you in gratitude.
  — Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025