METROPOLIS in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for METROPOLIS, such as:

1. Every metropolis has its staff of officials.
2. A description of the metropolis, and the country adjoining.
3. They had all the experiences of provincials in a metropolis.
4. Soon afterwards he left to begin his career in the metropolis.
5. She was delighted by the simplicity of voting one's self a metropolis.

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 Meanings and Examples of METROPOLIS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
metropolis
 n.  major city, especially chief city of country or region
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The author carried to a market-town, and then to the metropolis.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
2  I now intend to give the reader a short description of this country, as far as I travelled in it, which was not above two thousand miles round Lorbrulgrud, the metropolis.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
3  His majesty had given orders, that the island should move north-east and by east, to the vertical point over Lagado, the metropolis of the whole kingdom below, upon the firm earth.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
4  The author leaves Laputa; is conveyed to Balnibarbi; arrives at the metropolis.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV.
5  A description of the metropolis, and the country adjoining.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV.
6  The continent, as far as it is subject to the monarch of the flying island, passes under the general name of Balnibarbi; and the metropolis, as I said before, is called Lagado.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV.
7  Even such a little garden as this was considered in the metropolis of Copenhagen as a great luxury.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
8  One funeral is generally very much like another in this magnificent metropolis.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise.
9  The journey from our town to the metropolis was a journey of about five hours.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
10  To leave this metropolis,' said Mr. Micawber, 'and my friend Mr. Thomas Traddles, without acquitting myself of the pecuniary part of this obligation, would weigh upon my mind to an insupportable extent.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
11  She was delighted by the simplicity of voting one's self a metropolis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  They had all the experiences of provincials in a metropolis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  A few country carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as some city in a dream.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
14  One day my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
15  Every metropolis has its staff of officials.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
Example Sentence:
1  Every evening the terminal is filled with thousands of commuters going from this metropolis to their homes in the suburbs.
2  Just a few years ago Wuhan, a sprawling metropolis in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, exemplified China's economic woes.
3  Soon afterwards he left to begin his career in the metropolis.