Words similar to metropolis

Example sentences for: metropolis

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

Guangzhou straddles the Pearl River, China’s fifth-longest river, which links the metropolis to the South China Sea.
Administered as a separate region, like Beijing, the Shanghai metropolis includes rich farmland as well as big-city housing complexes and heavy industry.
Crowning seven hills along the winding banks of the River Tiber, Rome has numerous different personalities: ancient Rome of imperial ruins; Catholic Rome of Vatican City and countless churches; the Renaissance city of Michelangelo and Raphael or the Baroque of Bernini and Borromini; and a modern metropolis of interminable traffic jams, fashionable boutiques and cafés, as well as factories and characterless apartment buildings that make up the post-war eye-sore suburbs.
Madrid is a bustling, sprawling, mostly modern metropolis.
Over 90 percent of its land is uninhabited, contrasting with great centers of population, including the capital, Cairo, which is the largest city in Africa — a dusty, noisy, sprawling, neon-lit, crowded metropolis of more than fourteen million people.