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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The verdict carried a rare Vatican prison sentence in a city-state with only three jail cells.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• The Southeast Asian city-state is also dealing with the sudden downsides of success: namely, an epic surge in housing prices.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• With distinctive landmarks, backdrops and atmosphere, the Asian city-state is the ideal location to create a humorous addition to the Tom and Jerry canon.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 July 2023
• The history of the Florentine Renaissance can also be told in wars—a continual melee of rival families and city-states—and in the books that were used both to support and to undermine civic freedoms.
  — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Thanks to the conservation measures spearheaded by this enterprising city-state and its dedicated conservationists, the fate of the species is a bit more secure.
  — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
• Those efforts include the futuristic city-state Neom, which Prince Mohammed hopes will one day feature flying cars, robot dinosaurs and a giant artificial moon.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
• And in Singapore, a densely populated city-state with a single landfill, both citizen and government efforts are tackling the problem to stem harm to the environment and human health.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2023
• Almost a century after the agreement, the Hittites' expansive empire splintered into smaller city-states.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• Russia and the West, laid low by these neo-crusades, have disintegrated into small city-states (California and Moscovia are now sovereign nations), and an air of medieval disorder prevails.
  — Jennifer Wilson, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• Just as an archaeologist carefully excavates a mound to reveal different epochs of a city-state stacked on one another, so can a linguist separate the layers of a language to uncover the stages of its evolution.
  — Anvita Abbi, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• Madison’s theory of an extended republic was that self-government would work better in a large, diverse nation than in a small city-state (the locus of most prior republics) because no single faction would predominate.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps surprisingly for a city-state like Singapore, manufacturing contributes about 20% of the country’s GDP.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 23 May 2024
• These are the industrial hinterlands of Glendale, a tidy enclave in the rambling city-state that is Los Angeles, and here, among plumbing supply warehouses and an Amazon delivery van lot, sits a squat cinder-block building, an unexpected portal.
  — Liz Brown, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• In a meeting of the Baltimore City delegation earlier this month, Scott’s office asked legislators to consider a hybrid city-state appointment model, instead.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2024
• Concerns are most pronounced in Singapore, a multiracial city-state with a majority ethnic-Chinese population that is increasingly sympathetic to Beijing.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The game’s purview extends to the downtrodden toiling (and playing, like those youngsters) under the neo-feudal yoke of Shinra, the energy company that doubles as an autocratic city-state.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, the rise of other powerful families in Italy challenged Medici supremacy, and other nearby city-states gained power and further diminished the Medicis’ political leverage.
  — Neil Quilliam, Foreign Affairs, 29 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024