How to Use metropolitan in a Sentence

metropolitan

1 of 2 noun

• Iakovos served the in the Greek Orthodox Church for nearly 50 years and was the first metropolitan of Chicago.
  — Meredith Colias, Post-Tribune, 7 June 2017
• The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life.
  — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life.
  — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• But polls show Moscow’s metropolitan, middle-class youth are far from representative of Russia as a whole.
  — Francesca Ebel, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• But the partnership with a specific metropolitan is less common.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2018
• Iakovos served the in the Greek Orthodox Church for nearly 50 years and was the first metropolitan of Chicago.
  — Meredith Colias, Post-Tribune, 7 June 2017
• The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life.
  — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The new list ranks the country's 125 largest metropolitan areas based on affordability, job prospects and quality of life.
  — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• But polls show Moscow’s metropolitan, middle-class youth are far from representative of Russia as a whole.
  — Francesca Ebel, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• But the partnership with a specific metropolitan is less common.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2018

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metropolitan

2 of 2 adjective

• This is one of the best seafood restaurants in metropolitan Los Angeles.
• But even the metropolitan areas closer to the coast could have gusts up to 40 and 50 mph.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2023
• Chicagoans were asked to be mindful of the air quality as an alert was issued for the fourth day in a row for the city’s metropolitan area.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
• The smoke briefly gave New York City the worst air quality of any major metropolitan area in the world on Tuesday.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 June 2023
• The lost door plug was discovered Jan. 7 in the backyard of a high school physics teacher in the Portland metropolitan area.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024
• The lost door panel was later found in the backyard of a high school physics teacher's home in the Portland metropolitan area.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The Bayou City is one of the few major metropolitan areas headed in the right direction, and has been for years.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2023
• The incident occurred in the borough of Plum, in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2023
• The San Diego region receives an average of 12 inches of rain per year, which does not meet the needs of this metropolitan area.
  — Kobi Bardugo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
• Ending his leave, Mr. Severo returned and accepted the transfer to the metropolitan desk.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• Major metropolitan areas tend to turn over, so to speak.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• Even in metropolitan areas such as Des Moines, some roads remained icy on Monday; conditions are much worse in more rural parts of the state.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Its greater metropolitan area has a similar number of inhabitants as the Line will in the future but spreads over 853 square miles.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2023
• Trump won the Republican vote in the rural north and west but was thrashed in metropolitan Milwaukee and Madison.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
• Denver, the state capital and the center of a sprawling metropolitan area of more than 3 million people, has spent more than $42 million on the migrants.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Zillow data shows 43 of the largest 50 metropolitan areas have seen a rise in rental concessions compared with last year.
  — Wsj Pro, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2023
• Among the 50 most populous metropolitan areas, metros in the Midwest had the biggest share of rent gainers in July.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• Chester County is 35 miles south of the state's border with North Carolina, and is considered part of the larger Charlotte metropolitan area.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• The Baltimore metropolitan area has been included in the zone since early 2022, as the bugs expanded farther from Maryland’s neighbor to the north.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023
• Peregrines nest on cliff ledges near rivers in nature, which makes a riverfront metropolitan area like Cincinnati ideal.
  — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 28 June 2023
• Grovetown is part of the Augusta metropolitan area in east Georgia.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• About half of Korea’s population lives in the Seoul metropolitan area.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 16 Feb. 2024
• Fargo and Moorhead, although in separate states, are considered a single metropolitan area by locals, and the drive from the old site to the new one takes a little less than ten minutes.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
• Elmore County is part of the Montgomery metropolitan area.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
• New Brighton is part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, about 10 miles northeast of downtown Minneapolis.
  — Olivia Lloyd, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• Other surveys by the firm Bluefield Research have compiled data on water prices in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• Also, sessions tend to be pricier in more metropolitan cities.
  — Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2023
• The median home sale price only declined in one of 50 of the most populous metropolitan areas, according to Redfin.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
• Companies like Urban Lumber are part of a nationwide trend to find a higher use for wood in metropolitan areas.
  — Jill Draper, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• Only two of the 50 largest metropolitan areas, Miami and Las Vegas, saw home values rise on a monthly basis.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024