How to Use big-city in a Sentence
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Part of the aim is connecting big-city poets on the coasts with small-town rural poets across the span of the US.
—Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
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The new normal for big-city transit agencies is the off-peak rider.
—Curbed, 18 May 2023
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Away from the big-city lights in Sonoma, a young Ada Limón spent countless hours peering out at the stars with her dad’s telescope.
—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
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That’s not to say that the big-city fires of the past were strictly natural phenomena.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
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For a big-city civic museum, the Carnegie in Pittsburgh is an idiosyncratic place.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
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That’s low compared with the 9.85% top rate in big-city Minnesota, but South Dakota doesn’t tax income at all.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023
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Even though New York gets all the big-city buzz, Chicago should not be overlooked when planning an urban getaway with your girls.
—Vanessa Wilkins, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
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Abbott has butted heads with big-city mayors over the migrant crisis at the southern border.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2024
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Bringing a little big-city hustle to Austin’s dining scene.
—Kitty Greenwald, wsj.com, 13 Apr. 2023
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For months, Democratic members of Congress and big-city mayors have urged Biden to take stronger action.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
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Stage, with the clean, modern lines of its spacious dining room and leafy outdoor patio, brought big-city buzz to a once monotone patch of Palm Beach County.
—Usa Today Network, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
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From the big-city hustle of Kolkata to the onetime Mughal outpost of Murshidabad, with rural towns and villages in between, getting a taste of life Ganges-style was a breeze.
—Alex Greggery, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
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The outsider—most often a big-city visitor—always decides to stay.
—Audra Heinrichs, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
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The big-city protagonist never reenters her apartment alone—and still a cynic—in the finale.
—Audra Heinrichs, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
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The latest from the campaign trail Americans are hopelessly confused about big-city crime.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
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The race will also serve as another test for how crime is impacting big-city politics.
—Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 16 May 2023
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No weekends of fancy meals, big-city hotel rooms and adoring fans everywhere.
—Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
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Even before the pandemic, ridership in the region was never as high as in other big-city rail systems.
—Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
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All of that big-city razzle dazzle is drawing a different set of travelers.
—Melinda Fulmer, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2023
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Small-town charm, big-city benefits While some long-time businesses shuttered during the pandemic, new growth has been quick to sprout.
—Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
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The struggles served, too, as metaphors for the complexities and compromises of big-city policing and politics.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
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The usual big-city bustle of cars, cyclos, street-cart vendors, and families piled onto motos had stilled to a wary murmur.
—Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
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Many people free to work remotely left their big-city lives for suburbs and rural communities.
—Stephanie Stamm, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
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And could a big-city iPhone user, visiting her small hometown, fall in love with a local Christmas tree purveyor who uses an Android?
—Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
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Organizations on the left and right created a critical mass for a housecleaning, and in 1938 Shaw was recalled, the nation’s first recall of a big-city mayor.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
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Like most big-city departments, the LAPD has long maintained an intelligence-gathering wing.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
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Others, such as the big-city teacher, Susan (Sandra Lorenzano), who sees a different kind of potential in the boy, encourage him to find another path.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
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Brookwood Farms has the serenity and security of a small-town atmosphere while being minutes from big-city amenities.
—Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
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For a big-city experience (think flashy bar and upscale pastas and pizzas), try Vulcania, a restaurant by the Voltaggio brothers.
—Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2024
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Fey didn’t write this uneven comedy, but it’s got some of the same sophisticated satire of big-city elites that 30 Rock exudes, and Martin has a ball playing a pompous numbskull who doesn’t know that ponytails have been over for more than a decade.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
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