as in city
a thickly settled, highly populated area
a big, teeming metropolis where ambitious people from all over come to make their mark
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Recent Examples of metropolis
The Chicago River has had a choppy history amid the city’s rise into a metropolis.
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Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Making matters worse, there's a zombie apocalypse happening that sends the entire metropolis into lockdown mode, leaving everyone at the venue to hunker down inside or face the onslaught of flesh-eating monsters.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
Like Muscle Man, Mixtape follows a self-important, inarticulate mediocrity on the fringe of a minor American metropolis.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Forget the opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal, which allowed the budding metropolis to become an industrial center.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
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Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Making matters worse, there's a zombie apocalypse happening that sends the entire metropolis into lockdown mode, leaving everyone at the venue to hunker down inside or face the onslaught of flesh-eating monsters.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
Like Muscle Man, Mixtape follows a self-important, inarticulate mediocrity on the fringe of a minor American metropolis.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Forget the opening of the Ohio and Erie Canal, which allowed the budding metropolis to become an industrial center.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for metropolis
Recent Examples of Synonyms for metropolis
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The impact spread quickly to neighboring communities, including the small city that shares a name with the township.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Tkachenko reported damage in at least five city districts.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Longer-range drones are also routinely used to strike towns and cities close to the front.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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Several businesses were damaged, roads were left with deep cracks, and an old Roman Catholic church in nearby Daanbantayan town was also damaged, Cañete said.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Metropolis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metropolis. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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