Sentence examples for cities complex from inspiring English sources
With Moline and East Moline, Illinois, and Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Rock Island forms the Quad Cities complex.
Quad Cities, complex of cities at the Iowa-Illinois border, on the Mississippi River, U.S. Despite its name, the region includes five main cities: Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline, Illinois, and Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa.
It is very typical major provincial city: complex, historic.
Still, Ankara suffers from a second-city complex when it comes to Istanbul, which is larger and richer.
Texas City, city, Galveston county, Texas, U.S. It is part of the Galveston Texas City complex on Galveston Bay.
It forms part of a tri-city complex, just southeast of Portland, that includes Gladstone and West Linn.
Because Oakland had a second-city complex about San Francisco, the A's never considered appropriating the name of the larger city in the Bay Area.
GLASGOW has the classic second-city complex — locked in a never-ending comparison with its more popular and tourist-accessible sibling, Edinburgh, less than 50 miles away.
No better evidence could be found that Chicago has long since shed the "Second City" complex A. J. Liebling diagnosed 50 years ago.
Among them is the Vue Birmingham, which forms part of the Star City complex and is the biggest cinema outside North America.
By Julie Salamon The New Yorker, April 10 , 1989P. 36 Talk story about palm trees in the Winter Garden of the Battery Park City complex.
