big-city

adjective

: of or relating to a large city

big-city problems such as overcrowding and noise

a big-city school/hospital

big-city mayors

Examples of big-city in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Once one of dozens of big-city tabloids, the Post now stands alone as the last truly influential local tabloid. —Max Tani, semafor.com, 30 June 2025

Accommodations in Clay County are available but limited, but big-city Jacksonville is less than an hour north. —Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 14 June 2025

Among American art museums, there are haves and have-nots, with big-city, legacy galleries owning boatloads of great art--much of it in storage--and smaller, newer places in the provinces making do with nary a Renoir, Rothko, or Rembrandt. —Christian Schneider, National Review, 12 June 2025

The same Oversight Committee held a March hearing with big-city mayors, including Brandon Johnson of Chicago, to argue the same point. —Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025

Rhymes for big-city

• committee
• permittee
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• atomicity
• catholicity
• ellipticity
• historicity
• mutuality
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• city
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• gritty