How to Use metropolitan in a Sentence

metropolitan

adjective
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  • This is one of the best seafood restaurants in metropolitan Los Angeles.
  • But even the metropolitan areas closer to the coast could have gusts up to 40 and 50 mph.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Chicagoans were asked to be mindful of the air quality as an alert was issued for the fourth day in a row for the city’s metropolitan area.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • The smoke briefly gave New York City the worst air quality of any major metropolitan area in the world on Tuesday.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 June 2023
  • The lost door plug was discovered Jan. 7 in the backyard of a high school physics teacher in the Portland metropolitan area.
    — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The lost door panel was later found in the backyard of a high school physics teacher's home in the Portland metropolitan area.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The Bayou City is one of the few major metropolitan areas headed in the right direction, and has been for years.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2023
  • The incident occurred in the borough of Plum, in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The San Diego region receives an average of 12 inches of rain per year, which does not meet the needs of this metropolitan area.
    — Kobi Bardugo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Ending his leave, Mr. Severo returned and accepted the transfer to the metropolitan desk.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • Major metropolitan areas tend to turn over, so to speak.
    — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Even in metropolitan areas such as Des Moines, some roads remained icy on Monday; conditions are much worse in more rural parts of the state.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Its greater metropolitan area has a similar number of inhabitants as the Line will in the future but spreads over 853 square miles.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Trump won the Republican vote in the rural north and west but was thrashed in metropolitan Milwaukee and Madison.
    — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Denver, the state capital and the center of a sprawling metropolitan area of more than 3 million people, has spent more than $42 million on the migrants.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Zillow data shows 43 of the largest 50 metropolitan areas have seen a rise in rental concessions compared with last year.
    — Wsj Pro, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Among the 50 most populous metropolitan areas, metros in the Midwest had the biggest share of rent gainers in July.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Chester County is 35 miles south of the state's border with North Carolina, and is considered part of the larger Charlotte metropolitan area.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The Baltimore metropolitan area has been included in the zone since early 2022, as the bugs expanded farther from Maryland’s neighbor to the north.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023
  • Peregrines nest on cliff ledges near rivers in nature, which makes a riverfront metropolitan area like Cincinnati ideal.
    — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 28 June 2023
  • Grovetown is part of the Augusta metropolitan area in east Georgia.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • About half of Korea’s population lives in the Seoul metropolitan area.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Fargo and Moorhead, although in separate states, are considered a single metropolitan area by locals, and the drive from the old site to the new one takes a little less than ten minutes.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
  • Elmore County is part of the Montgomery metropolitan area.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • New Brighton is part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, about 10 miles northeast of downtown Minneapolis.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Other surveys by the firm Bluefield Research have compiled data on water prices in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Also, sessions tend to be pricier in more metropolitan cities.
    — Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The median home sale price only declined in one of 50 of the most populous metropolitan areas, according to Redfin.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Companies like Urban Lumber are part of a nationwide trend to find a higher use for wood in metropolitan areas.
    — Jill Draper, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Only two of the 50 largest metropolitan areas, Miami and Las Vegas, saw home values rise on a monthly basis.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023

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