Example sentences for: big-city

How can you use “big-city” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some 75 percent of major airline flights operate to just 46 big-city airports, and half of all airline flights merely shuttle passengers among just 21 hub airports.

  • Across from the mansion, the Zoological and Botanical Gardens (gardens open daily 6am–10pm; zoo 6am–7pm; admission free) provide a welcome oasis amid the big-city pressures.

  • Time 's "City Boosters" pays tribute to big-city mayors who've privatized services, challenged employee unions, and supported school vouchers.

  • But on the evidence of the most recent cases, the folks in flyover country have grown more worldly than big-city journalists give them credit for.

  • When an arts patron bequeathed a quarter-million dollars to the city for a work of public art in the '80s, the fledgling arts commission invited big-city curators to jury the competition.


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