How to Use metropolis in a Sentence

metropolis

noun

• The lockdown is due to switch to the western half of the metropolis of about 25 million on April 1.
  — Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• Among the top things to do in Austin is get a bird's-eye view of the metropolis at Mount Bonnell, one of the city's highest points at 781 feet.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2023
• The program is to occur in Shanghai, a bustling metropolis known as the Paris of the East and home to more than 26 million people.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
• Athens is a metropolis that has been shaped by the sufferings and triumphs of its past.
  — Demetrios Ioannou, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024
• In the night sky over what was once a vibrant European metropolis, the stars blaze down.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• The difference — the first book spanning a metropolis, the second confined to a dwelling — is telling.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• In 2021, the city saw more homicides than any other metropolis in the United States.
  — Marin Cogan, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
• It’s not a bustling metropolis, but it’s no ghost town either.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 22 Oct. 2021
• Brightline is planning to roll out a new high-speed train between the two metropolises in 2027.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2023
• The patriots were the good guys — and good guys wouldn’t set fire to their most important metropolis.
  — Robert G. Kaiser, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• Then eight years ago, the mini metropolis moved — to a brewery started by the Hartings’ son Mike and his wife, Leigh.
  — Susan Taylor Martin, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2021
• To live in a river-delta metropolis like Bangkok is to buy a ticket for a climate-change lottery.
  — Pitchaya Sudbanthad, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
• Gangs of Lagos is a crime thriller set in the neighborhood of Isale Eko in the Nigerian metropolis.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022
• By the summer of 2020, the once-great metropolis had been transformed into a dystopian ghost town.
  — Yosie Levine, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
• The capital of one of the world's most glorious empires, Cairo is a sprawling metropolis set along the banks of the Nile River.
  — Livia Hengel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• But Dubai, an ultra-modern metropolis built on desert sands, could be fertile ground for the trend.
  — Nick El Hajj, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Each part of the large metropolis holds the key to unlocking a world full of subculture and history.
  — Kareema Bee, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023
• Where else would be better to spend some of his final games, Randle thought, than the vibrant metropolis of Kyiv?
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2022
• The Hilton is transformed into a tiny metropolis on a normal Globes night.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 Jan. 2022
• Phoenix and surrounding communities are about to host Super Bowl 57, and the eyes of the nation and world are on the desert metropolis.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
• Modeling in clay was a way to process the paintings and sculpture the young man was discovering in the art metropolis of the Western world.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• While the spring 2025 circuit in the Italian metropolis was full of directional trends, the overall mood among show goers was to ditch the streetwear and dress up.
  — Alex Badia, WWD, 24 Sep. 2024
• In the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing, cases remained in the triple digits all week, with a new high of 783 on Thursday.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2022
• In the sprawling metropolis outside his office, the homes kept going up.
  — Christopher Flavelle Adriana Zehbrauskas, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• In the wake of Covid-19, many people have decided to leave the ultra-modern metropolis and take their fur babies with them.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2022
• The metropolis of Good Day Sunshine is a gentle place where even the police puppet is friendly.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 31 May 2024
• Many fans are making the cross-country trek from the chilly metropolis of Cincinnati, where snow is still on the ground from multiple winter storms.
  — Caitlin Kaiser and Pedram Javaheri, CNN, 12 Feb. 2022
• This is the other heart of the Hibernian metropolis, the broken one.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
• The desert metropolis that has grown rapidly in recent years is hosting this year's Super Bowl.
  — Chris Malloy, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2023
• Pablo Marín sketches a suspension of the laws of physics, his compositions offer an idiosyncratic view of a metropolis in flux.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024