Example sentences for: metropolis

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

  • Madrid is a bustling, sprawling, mostly modern metropolis.

  • Administered as a separate region, like Beijing, the Shanghai metropolis includes rich farmland as well as big-city housing complexes and heavy industry.

  • The Godzilla who lumbers through a metropolis on two legs, erect, slowly crushing cars and knocking over buildings, robotically training his radioactive breath on anything and everything he sees, is a mythical vision of Armageddon.

  • It's as if he conceived The Phantom Menace as a Japanese No pageant and has purposely deadened his actors, directing them to stand stiffly in the dead center of the screen against matte paintings of space or some futuristic metropolis and deliver lines alternately formal or bemusing.

  • The movie, based on the Flaming Carrot/Mysterymen comics, unfolds in a dirigible-filled urban metropolis in which superheroes routinely mix it up with supervillains, and in which there exists an entire class of nerdy superhero wannabes, each of whom struggles to concoct a persona that will fully embody what he or she does most ...


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