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:

  • 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.

  • The cover story lauds half a dozen big-city mayors as the potential saviors of American politics.

  • 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.

  • You’ll find them cheerful, friendly, and more easily approachable than the big-city folk of Ontario and Québec.

  • 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.


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