How to Use sister city in a Sentence

sister city

noun

• Next to the tree was a plaque recognizing the sister city of Kensington, Md.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
• Expect the drive to take an hour, and make sure to budget time to explore Ouray, Silverton’s sister city.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2023
• The Medicaid language, albeit a softer version of it, landed in House Bill 1120 by the end of the night Friday, as did the sister city ban.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
• Where to Go: Rather than visiting Madrid, why not consider its sister city?
  — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Salt Lake City and Matsumoto also share Olympic sister city status.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 July 2023
• City officials in the northern German port of Kiel were flattered this year when the Chinese port of Qingdao — about 40 times its size — proposed partnering up as a sister city.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• The playwright is intimately familiar with Juárez, sister city of their hometown El Paso just across the border.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
• South Lake Tahoe, and to a lesser extent its sister city across the border, Stateline, Nev., is shedding its image as a haven for low-roller gamblers to the north and purveyor of low-rent roadside dive motels for ski bums to the south.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• In North Little Rock, where the homicide toll is lower than its more-populous sister city, the first year of the pandemic corresponded with a large spike in homicides, data showed.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 July 2023
• This garden is designed with paved walkways going up and down its various installations and is modeled to represent its sister city Yokohama, Japan.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Before becoming mayor, Adams, as Brooklyn borough president, signed a sister city deal with the Üsküdar section of Istanbul.
  — Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2024
• For economic aid and expertise in municipal and local government, Russia has set up a sister city arrangement where Russian cities pair with those under occupation in Ukraine.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Since 1999, Yakima has been involved with Morelia in Michoacán in a sister city program to provide cultural understanding between two international cities by hosting cultural events between the two.
  — Alberto Perez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Sep 2024