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:

This city of over half a million people is actually the third largest Metropolis in Greece, and is its largest port.
At the start, the camera glides over Manhattan into New Jersey while a narrator (Robert De Niro, who turns out to be an Internal Affairs cop named Mo Tilden) informs us that New York City policemen have always dreamed of living outside the metropolis itself, "where the shit couldn't touch 'em," and that Garrison was such a refuge--a city on a hill, with a large population of cops, no minorities, and almost no crime.
Critics praise Wang for capturing "the essence of a great metropolis in the throes of change" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ).
Here, where the waters of the Black Sea blend into the Aegean, East and West mingle and merge in the cultural melting-pot of Turkey’s largest metropolis.
The dirt, grime, spit, and fouler substances that regularly adhere to one's clothing here make this fine metropolis a veritable fantasia of filth.