How to Use metropolis in a Sentence

metropolis

noun

• The metropolis, one of the world’s largest, has announced plans to build nearly 600 more parks in the city in the next five years.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2021
• 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
• Then head to Cape Town, the stunning South African city where mountains—and a metropolis—meets the sea.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 May 2021
• The two new pairs of earphones are named for the beautiful city of Lisbon and the bustling metropolis of Seoul.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• With 57 miles of trails, this area sits in the middle of a metropolis and is full of forests, meadows, and the Wissahickon Creek.
  — Amiee White Beazley, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2021
• With the metropolis of Sendai nearby, this isn’t the middle of nowhere, but this isn’t Tokyo, either.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2021
• 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
• Buenos Aires is a lively metropolis, and there's something to see and do all year round.
  — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2021
• 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
• Judy Hopps works with a wily fox to solve a mysterious case in the mammal metropolis of Zootopia.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 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
• But on the streets of Tel Aviv — Israel's bustling metropolis — there was less optimism.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 21 May 2021
• Here’s how a drab Soviet metropolis became Central Asia’s capital of cool.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
• Like a genuine metropolis, the Met expanded according to grand plans that were rarely honored and frequently adjusted to conform with expediency and improvisation.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025