cityscape
noun
city·scape
ˈsi-tē-ˌskāp 
1
: a city viewed as a scene
2
: an artistic representation of a city
3
: an urban environment
a cityscape cluttered with factories
Examples of cityscape in a Sentence
The cityscape is cluttered with factories.
a photographer who does mostly cityscapes
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The stage, covered in a crumbling cityscape and backed by a massive screen, sat next to a cross-shaped catwalk on the stadium floor dappled with giant golden rings.
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Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
The Pont Neuf design also features a boat, a cargo barge floating on the Seine, with the historic bridge and Parisian cityscape in the background.
—Ming Liu, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Contestants’ entries had to feature a cityscape showcasing future human innovations or an alternate reality in which electricity never had been invented.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2025
The horizon is ever-present, either as a forbidding blankness or a flat, shimmering cityscape that reinforces the characters’ growing isolation.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
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Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
The Pont Neuf design also features a boat, a cargo barge floating on the Seine, with the historic bridge and Parisian cityscape in the background.
—Ming Liu, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Contestants’ entries had to feature a cityscape showcasing future human innovations or an alternate reality in which electricity never had been invented.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2025
The horizon is ever-present, either as a forbidding blankness or a flat, shimmering cityscape that reinforces the characters’ growing isolation.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cityscape
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“Cityscape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cityscape. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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