How to Use city-state in a Sentence

city-state

noun

• And the Asian city-state has won that accolade nine times in the last 11 years.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2023
• Athens was a belligerent city-state that fell victim to its own aggressions.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• Just how the small city-state of less than 6 million people has come to be the preferred venue for top artists is no mystery.
  — Time, 22 June 2023
• It was initially applied to the dominance of one city-state over others.
  — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
• As conditions worsened, city-states fought over power and resources.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• The mayor talked about the new level of city-state cooperation.
  — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
• The verdict carried a rare Vatican prison sentence in a city-state with only three jail cells.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• On the tip of the Malaysian peninsula, the island city-state piled up sand to expand its coastline and reclaim land from the sea.
  — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
• Now the competitions that once united the fractured city-states of Greece connect people around the globe.
  — Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024
• Barbarians and city-states have merged into one concept, called independents.
  — Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2025
• The Corinthian style is named for Corinth, an ancient Greek city-state about 50 miles west of Athens.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
• The issue is a critical one for the Southeast Asian city-state of 6 million people.
  — Chris Wellisz, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
• This city-state packs a world of experiences into its ever-changing skyline and sprawling gardens.
  — Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 12 Feb. 2025
• Historians have argued that similar helmets were worn by ancient warriors of many Greek city-states.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
• Singapore’s imports look huge because that city-state is often the first stop on the way to their final destination in other parts of Asia.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
• Now, Wong has been given a $1 million pay bump, with the wealthy city-state giving a big boost to ministers’ salaries for the first time in 15 years.
  — John Liu, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
• Hansen believes that wastefulness and despoilment sped the collapse of the vast city-states likely controlled by El Mirador.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The rivalries between Greek city-states led to the regular use of bribery to encourage shifts in loyalties and stoke rebellions.
  — Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
• For months, tensions had been building between the two city-states as the Athenians clashed with Sparta’s friends and the Spartans sat idly by.
  — A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
• In his view, the fact that many Greek city-states had representative governments enabled the Greek victory.
  — Debbie Felton, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2025
• Adjusting to life in Singapore won’t be much of a hassle since many signs in the culturally diverse city-state are in English.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 2 Oct. 2024
• At the time, Italian city-states were wealthy, Bauch said, and had developed storage systems for grain and huge trade networks established over centuries.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025
• And where better than Monaco, the sovereign city-state home to F1’s most iconic Grand Prix, to unveil such pieces?
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2024
• Some 550 years ago the last of the great city-states of the Maya civilization that had flourished in the Americas for centuries met their demise.
  — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• With crops failing and fears of starvation rising, some wealthy Italian city-states like Florence and Venice imported grain from elsewhere in the world.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025
• Debating literary currency The scheme has sparked debate in the affluent city-state over whether cash can truly cultivate a lifelong love for books.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
• Over the last decade, Singapore, a city-state with a population of five million, has quietly become an important partner in this regard.
  — Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2023
• Dozens of boreholes were drilled into the ground at the site, once a pre-Hispanic city-state, revealing layers of artifacts from various societies.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• The Doge was also, in medieval times, the chief magistrate of city-states such as Venice and Genoa, and acted as a judge to decide questions brought before a court of justice.
  — Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• Maria Montessori was born in the province of Ancona in 1870, as Italy was unified out of a patchwork of ancient republics and city-states.
  — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023