How to Use metro in a Sentence

metro

1 of 2 noun

• These three metro Phoenix cities were ranked among the 10 high-cost cities in the U.S.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
• North Texas is home to the fastest growing metro areas in the country.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• The Kansas City metro has seen fog persist throughout much of the past week.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2024
• The metro Phoenix area had a high of 51 degrees and a low of 32 degrees, the weather service said.
  — Aidan Wohl, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2024
• The San Francisco-San Mateo metro area has lost jobs for three months in a row.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• While these metro areas can be pricey and packed at any time, things do slow down in winter.
  — Rocky Casale, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• To be included in the study, a user had to look up at least 10 for-sale homes outside their metro area.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
• The Las Vegas metro area, which was the hardest hit in the entire nation, saw its jobless rate soar to 34%.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• What’s interesting is that Akron is not part of our metro area.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• For example, the two metros that added most to their stocks were Austin and Provo, yet prices in each still rose 8.1%.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
• The forecast is calling for 8 to 16 inches of snow for the Denver metro area, with the highest totals near the foothills and the Palmer Divide.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2024
• The metro area has a 20% chance of showers early Monday, and there will be haze from area wildfires that will help keep the heat at bay.
  — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
• The sheriff's office said the family – who are from the Portland metro area – hiked about a half mile up the trail when the father fell.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
• But just as many faithful espresso-drinkers are from all around the metro and further — Lawrence, even Topeka.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2024
• Employment in the Charleston metro area grew by 5.9% last year, twice as fast as the U.S. average.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• In the Los Angeles metro area, winds are expected to gust 25 to 40 mph on Sunday.
  — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• In general, the sweet spot for 30 of the top 35 largest metro areas is between May and early July.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• San Diego had one of the largest outflows — 2,100 users — which measured the number of home searches from the metro minus the number looking to move here.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
• San Diego has seen its fortunes change throughout the past few years in comparison to the 20 metros.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
• The Miami metro area is home to the biggest Haitian population in the country.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes The Miami Herald (tns), arkansasonline.com, 28 Mar. 2024
• The Kansas City metro area will be spared the heaviest snowfall, with less than an inch of snow expected.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
• That growth has absolutely found its way to the Milwaukee metro area.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
• The average delinquency rate across the 50 largest metro areas in the country is about 5 percent.
  — Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
• The residual question now burns across the greater metro area: Who will pay for its demolition?
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 27 Feb. 2024
• The metro area includes more than 3 million people, which is more than half the state's population.
  — Trisha Ahmed, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
• This working-class neighborhood sits about a 50-minute metro ride east of central London.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• In the Chicago metro area, a person would need to earn nearly $28 an hour working 40 hours a week to afford a two-bedroom apartment, the report found.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2023
• Of the 12 metro areas the bureau released data for Thursday, San Diego had the fourth highest inflation rate.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
• Three of the Top 10 metro growth areas were in the Sunshine State—and in terms of overall percentage growth, Florida had four of the five fastest growing metro areas.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
• Out of the nation’s biggest metro areas, San Diego had the seventh-highest annual rent growth.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023

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metro

2 of 2 adjective

• But no one disputes metro Phoenix rents have risen sharply.
  — Catherine Reagor, azcentral, 31 Mar. 2018
• Sunday in the metro New York area is expected to be sunny with highs in the mid 40s.
  — Johnny Diaz, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2020
• Newark is one of the three major airports serving metro New York City.
  — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 14 May 2018
• In the summer, when metro Phoenix residents escape the desert heat and flee to the forests, the number can be 2,500 higher.
  — AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
• By the late afternoon and into the evening, the rain will fill in over both metro regions and may become heavy at times.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2017
• Warming is to begin in earnest Thursday, with much of the metro area forecast to reach July-level highs in the mid-80s.
  — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• Wednesday starts windy and near freezing for most metro areas.
  — oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2019
• Some metro city park programs, such as warming houses at ice rinks, were closed.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 27 Dec. 2019
• The metro Atlanta region has seen a 21 percent rise in home prices in the last three years, according to Re/Max Georgia.
  — Bill Torpy, ajc, 20 June 2018
• The semifinalists emerged from a field of 180 students from metro area high schools, who were auditioned in March and April.
  — By Joe Henderson, kansascity.com, 14 June 2017
• Practo also observed that parents in metro cities are the most active on the platform.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 28 Apr. 2020
• The attorney has connections across metro New York City.
  — Holly Yan and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN, 4 Mar. 2020
• The 50 percent increase would be the largest single-year jump metro government has ever faced.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 8 Dec. 2017
• Even in metro New York, with nearly the longest commutes in the country, that average is 36 minutes.
  — Emily Badger, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2017
• Portland, however, saw a bump in May that brought metro home sales to their highest level in nearly two years.
  — oregonlive.com, 25 June 2019
• Montgomery county saw the second highest, with a 35.5 percent metro gain.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 10 July 2019
• In fact, people in metro cities are more or less confident than those in non-metros, according to the survey.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 24 June 2019
• Light snow is expected to fall across metro Detroit Tuesday.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2018
• Just as with 5G, the growing number of fiber-to-the-home connections in metro neighborhoods will widen the digital divide.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2019
• Current forecasts called for Irma to head inland, putting it near metro Atlanta – home to the world’s busiest airport –by Tuesday.
  — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2017
• The magazine ranks metro areas and states by the number of new or expansion corporate construction projects over the course of the year.
  — Stephen English, star-telegram, 6 Mar. 2018
• If making money were a team sport, then metro Denver businesses would be heading to the playoffs.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 July 2019
• That edition proved to be a savior, given tough competition in metro New York.
  — James Warren, The Hive, 2 Aug. 2017
• As for testing, out of the 18 counties with the highest positivity rate, 17 are non-metro counties.
  — Star Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
• According to the city's website, its metro area measures nearly 9,000 square miles -- an area larger than New Jersey.
  — Thom Patterson, CNN, 31 Aug. 2017
• Campbell, who owns rental homes in the area, said he had been stopped by another mobile metro unit officer days earlier for the same issues.
  — Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Much of the close-in D.C. metro area remains under a severe thunderstorm warning through 4 p.m. The main impacts with this storm continue to be very heavy rain, and some pockets of strong, gusty winds.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 19 June 2017
• Events in metro New York are coming under close scrutiny due to an increase in cases in the city and, in particular, an outbreak in the suburb of New Rochelle.
  — David Welch / Bloomberg, Time, 11 Mar. 2020
• The retailer is also looking for a city with large skilled workforce, a metro population of more than 1 million people and direct flights to the West Coast.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2018
• Through tonight: Rain showers should move into the Washington-metro area again at about 7 p.m. From there, expect on- and off-again showers through the entire overnight period, with the best chance of steadier rain south and east of the city.
  — Greg Porter, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024