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
  • These prices may be among the highest per square foot of any city in the world.
    David Kaufman, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 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
  • May the Good Lord bless the city of Chicago and the men and women who serve and protect this great city.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 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
  • How would that sit with Irish Catholic voters in cities like Chicago?
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Mazatlán has become a bustling resort city filled with tourists all year round.
    Janet Blaser, Contributor, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Jiaxing is a city on the eastern coast of China, just to the west of Shanghai.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
  • 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
  • Those words were presented the length of a city block along the side of the Cleveland Press’ downtown building.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Some residents of this metro Phoenix city are up in arms over a new QuikTrip.
    Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
  • Many cities have Christmas tree recycling programs in which the trees are chipped and turned to mulch.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • By the end of March, city staff presents a trial budget to council members.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 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
  • Milwaukee tied with New York City as the 30th-most affordable city for minimum-wage workers.
    Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Houston saw 43 incidents of gun violence in that timeframe while San Antonino was the second-most Thanksgiving-shooting-prone Texas city with 16 incidents.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

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