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.
It's the only city where the actual city is still the center not just of the metropolis's official high culture but of its everyday culture too.
From Duzce, Turkey, the paper reported, "Seismologists at the country's Kandilli observatory warned that a major fault system had been activated, and that it was only a question of when, not if, the metropolis would be leveled."
One of the marvelous things about our books is the way they organize a major metropolis and its millions of component parts into a digestible, unintimidating, navigable package.