Examples of cosmopolis in a Sentence

a sprawling cosmopolis where ambitious people from all over come to make their fortune

Recent Examples on the Web On the Volga a quasi-capital rose at Sarai, established by Batu around 1250, and grew into a cosmopolis of artisans, farmers, and merchants from as far away as Syria, Egypt, even Greece—so many that a New Sarai was founded upriver. — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021 For decades a symbol of all that was dead and dysfunctional in the ever-expanding cosmopolis, the river is undergoing its own rehabilitation, shedding some of its visible concrete. — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018

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