Words similar to big-city

Example sentences for: big-city

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The cover story lauds half a dozen big-city mayors as the potential saviors of American politics.
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.
Although Osaka is overshadowed by Tokyo in the big-city stakes, it is a vibrant and energetic world capital in its own right and certainly has plenty to offer the curious visitor.
Hawi, a Christian from Mount Lebanon turned big-city academic whose often political poetry had once made him an Arab nationalist hero, despaired over the wider Arab world's abandonment of his beloved Lebanon.