Sentence examples for a sprawling metropolis from inspiring English sources

Transportation gridlock frustrated visitors as they rushed between events on opposite sides of a sprawling metropolis.

They thought about prestige and the liberating feeling of floating above a sprawling metropolis, separated only by glass.

Compared with where we went next - by speedboat and by glamorously workaday seaplane - Huvafen Fushi felt like a sprawling metropolis.

Paris is now a sprawling metropolis, one of Europe's largest conurbations, but its historic heart can still be traversed in an evening's walk.

Unlike many areas of Detroit, where the decay spreads out for mile after mile across a sprawling metropolis, in Benton Harbor it's relatively small and self-contained.

For those who equate Seoul with a sprawling metropolis of skyscrapers and malls, the intimate scale of Samcheong-dong is a pleasant surprise.

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As a country singer in the sprawling metropolis of Chicago, Fulks said he's "a little bit of a fish out of water".

However well the buildings are refitted afterward, it's hard to see how the Olympic park will relate to the rest of the city, beyond being a welcome piece of green space in an increasingly built-up, sprawling metropolis.

Alice Bhatti, a Christian nurse working in a dilapidated hospital in Pakistan's dusty, sprawling metropolis Karachi, barely thinks twice before putting a blade to her wealthy assailant's penis.

Don't be daunted by the size of this sprawling metropolis – just pick a neighbourhood and get a local to show you around.