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
  • What is the oldest city in the world that still exists?
    — Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Daniels victim is the city’s 105th homicide this year and the ninth in less than a week.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 6 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • So far this year, police have shot and killed four people in the city.
    — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The city in Marinette County might have a better claim to that slogan.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2022
  • Curfews put in place in other cities have shown us that.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The tools are simple to use and can be filtered by time range, city and airline.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 2 June 2025
  • On one side of Kern Avenue in the small city of McFarland is the library.
    — Tim Arango Carlos Jaramillo, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The second large wildfire started in Megara, a small city west of Athens.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 21 July 2022
  • The mountains and mesas represent their path from the reservation to the city.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Hand in hand with this influx comes the fostering of culture—a city needs a soul.
    — Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Footage has since emerged of large plumes of smoke rising from the heart of Israel's major city of Tel Aviv.
    — Tom O'Connor Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
  • 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
  • But beyond all the building bombast, there's a gentler, low-key side to the city, too.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The city of Los Angeles has whole micro-economies built on awards shows.
    — Mary McNamaraculture Columnist and Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • But as those cities become more expensive, the population has traveled to the middle for more affordable options.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2025
  • Some cities in Maryland and Vermont have also moved to allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections, but the measures have met with legal challenges.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025

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