How to Use city in a Sentence

city

noun
  • The city is working to make the streets safer.
  • All of the crowds are in those first cities, none of the crowds are in the second cities.
    Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The house was a short walk from the historic city center.
    Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
  • The church and its pastor, Jose Manuel Castro, faces up to $4,000 in city fines, the suit said.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The train would make stops for up to three hours in the two cities most worth visiting along the route.
    Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2023
  • But New York is the only city in the country that has a right to shelter.
    Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Who doesn’t both hate and love their city in equal measure?
    Avantika Shankar, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Debris from cities and villages is brought here in dump trucks at all hours of the day.
    Nicole Tung, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • About 370 acres of trees were felled to create a buffer zone between the fire and city.
    Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Curfews put in place in other cities have shown us that.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Hand in hand with this influx comes the fostering of culture—a city needs a soul.
    Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2023
  • That’s more than any other U.S. city, and puts L.A. in a strong position to keep leading the way.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The crime has now leaked out from the capital and started to rise in other cities and in the countryside.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Many cities have Christmas tree recycling programs in which the trees are chipped and turned to mulch.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • To the south, the old manufacturing city of Fort Smith has lived in that shadow.
    Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
  • By the campaign’s end, the Mongols controlled some twenty Rus’ cities.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Protests against the regime also erupted in Paris, Istanbul and other cities around the world.
    Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Then there are the rhythms of summer in a city where life is increasingly back to normal.
    Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Mosul is home to the ancient city of Nineveh, famous for its five gates.
    Ari Shapiro, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Golfers sue city of L.A., calling out failure to stop black market in tee times.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The crown is a sweet memory infused with their youth, their city and their heritage.
    Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • That’s what the mayor wanted for San Diego, which appeared the first city in California ready to take the plunge.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The two cities have their own city governments, while the UG provides county services.
    Luke Nozicka, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Hamtramck isn’t the only city with Pride-flag squabbles.
    Allan Lengel, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Most major East Coast cities will see 2 to 4 inches of rain, with a few areas topping 5 inches.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Getting There and Back To make this quick trip work, fly into one city, and then out of the other, and book a seat on the high-speed Eurostar train to travel between the two.
    Harriet Baskas, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The airline now serves 35 airports across the U.S., mostly in cities underserved by air service.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • The three men sanctioned all worked in the violent border city of Tijuana.
    CBS News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • When traveling to a new town or city, enrolling in a ghost tour can be a great way to delve into the area’s history and local lore.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The opportunity to live in a city like Milan gives you the chance to get great inspiration from the people around you.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2023

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