Word Finder - city

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A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.

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São Paulo is the largest city in South America.

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A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.

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The central business district; downtown.

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I'm going into the city today to do some shopping.

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A large amount of something (used after the noun).

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It's video game city in here!

You should have called the city cops.

You used to be a big city detective.

The three-story building looked big enough to cover a city block.

The rulers of the city met to decide what should be done with the corn.

I just wanted to see a bit of your city before I drive to your car.

He was the builder of a famous and beautiful city called Bagdad.

The space underneath the roof, where they stood, permitted them to see on all sides of the tall building, and they looked with much curiosity at the city spread out beneath them.

They seemed to be falling right into the middle of a big city which had many tall buildings with glass domes and sharp-pointed spires.

During the Great Depression in the United States, many unemployed Americans simply left the city and went back to farm life, sometimes living with relatives.

We left the city last Thursday night, and arrived in Brewster Friday afternoon.

We have a hospital report from inner city Cleveland.

For they were in the streets of a beautiful emerald-green city, bathed in a grateful green light that was especially pleasing to their eyes, and surrounded by merry faced people in gorgeous green-and-gold costumes of many extraordinary designs.

It has followed me across the ocean and found me in this magnificent great city which I should like to tell you all about if I could take time for it and make my letter long enough.

This would be the case in a besieged city or a nation using the food supply to keep its citizenry in check.

The rainbow tints from the colored suns fell upon the glass city softly and gave to the buildings many delicate, shifting hues which were very pretty to see.

As the horse ambled along, drawing the buggy, the people of the glass city made way for them and formed a procession in their rear.

The gate, I suppose, is New York City, and Freedom is the great statue of Liberty.

The whistle of the locomotive penetrates my woods summer and winter, sounding like the scream of a hawk sailing over some farmer's yard, informing me that many restless city merchants are arriving within the circle of the town, or adventurous country traders from the other side.

Everything is quiet in the city and there is not the slightest danger.

I was in a city but it was night.

Yes, here it lies before me, but why is the deputation from the city so long in appearing? he wondered.

Parkside isn't a 'big city.'

In 1916, the number of cases just in New York City was reported to be nine thousand.

It was a sort of tangible kaleidoscope, this white city of the West.

Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries.

She had grown soft in five years of city life.

All our relatives were city dwellers.

It was nearing Christmas and while New York was aglow, my wife and I were just the opposite; out of sync with the mood of the city.

She joined crowds of people milling through downtown Crystal City to see the Christmas displays and shop.

The inn, not large by city standards, was constantly in need of attention, especially in this, the short but hectic high season.

She might not be on her street or even in her neighborhood or city, but it certainly looked like she was back in her world.

He felt claustrophobic in the city, needed air and space.

The grey skies of winter and grey cement of the city depressed her.

My dearest Joshua has been absent for near a week now, bound to the duties of his calling, and those of his wife who is much involved in the charities of our city.

For the right man, she might give up the farm and go live in the city, but children?

The emerops facility was across a field and a road then down a few blocks in the ghost town that was the city of Randolph on the eastern shores of the Mississippi.

This is a bunker city.

He had spent his career in the city, the last seven months investigating the crime family as a part of a special task force.

The city covers an area of about 4 sq.

The total value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $2,326,552.

The houses of the city were all made of glass, so clear and transparent that one could look through the walls as easily as through a window.

His plays run in every major city in the English-speaking world, and Hollywood makes movies of them—good movies!

If I flushed hundred dollar bills down the toilet, the city of Cleveland would run out of water before I went broke.

The city slicker and the country hick - even Josh had warned her.

Four years later East Orange was chartered as a city.

He motioned the PMF members behind him towards the city.

Police Headquarters was located in the center of town between the City Hall and the library, across from a well-kept park that contained the obligatory statue of a civil war hero.

The hills and farmlands gradually turned to inner suburbia and then to the harshness of urban streets, choked tightly with the crush, smells and sounds of the city.

Most people saved that look for his mother while casting uncertain or suspicious looks at the masked child who followed her dutifully through the city.

Of the numerous churches in the city the most interesting are the Stiftskirche, with two towers, a fine specimen of 15th-century Gothic; the Leonhardskirche, also a Gothic building of the 15th century; the Hospitalkirche, restored in 1841, the cloisters of which contain the tomb of Johann Reuchlin; the fine modern Gothic church of St John; the new Roman Catholic church of St Nicholas; the Friedenskirche; and the English church.