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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Given the daytime traffic snarls and usual big-city parking problems, use your car only for out-of-town trips.


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