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• Texarkana, Arkansas, and Texarkana, Texas, are twin cities forming the Texarkana metropolitan area.From the entry twin city
• Scotland Yard is, technically speaking, only the metropolitan police for Greater London but because of their importance they have special jurisdiction for some crimes across the United Kingdom.From the entry police
• The first step in creating megapolitan areas involved producing a map of the micropolitan and metropolitan counties.2009, Robert E. Lang, Arthur C. Nelson, “Megapolitan America: Defining and Applying a New Geography”, in Catherine L. Ross, editor…. From the entry megapolitan
• The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.2004, Janet Golden, Richard Alan Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and…. From the entry greater
• In some metropolitan areas, there is as much commutation out of the city as into it.1999, BW Hawkins, DM Ihrke, “Research Note: Reexamining the Suburban Exploitation Thesis in American Metropolitan Areas”, in Publius: The…. From the entry commutation
• COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily.1953 September 26, Editor & Publisher 1953-09-26: Vol 86 Iss 40. From the entry rim
• Have the days of thugdom returned to the metropolitan newspaper business?1908, New York Star, number 2, page 213. From the entry thugdom
• Besides Taipei City itself, the Taipei metropolitan area consists of the townships and rural district jurisdictions of 1.2021, Tzen-Ying Ling, “Investigating the malleable socioeconomic resilience pathway to urban cohesion: a case of Taipei metropolitan…. From the entry Panchiao
• Taipei City: 12 districts are designated metropolitan core; 2.2021, Tzen-Ying Ling, “Investigating the malleable socioeconomic resilience pathway to urban cohesion: a case of Taipei metropolitan…. From the entry Panchiao
• They provided metropolitan science with information and biota.2021, Ulrike Kirchberger, “Between Transimperial Networking and National Antagonism: German Scientists in the British Empire during the…. From the entry subimperialism
• Admittedly, our metropolitan plan was an exercise in hope.2007, Alexander Polikoff, Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto, Northwestern University Press…. From the entry redlining
• This unassuming south-Ponce tapas restaurant offers some of the most creative and sophisticated small plates in the metropolitan area.2007, Atlanta Magazine, volume 47, number 3, page 156. From the entry small plate
• It is most likely the work of a metropolitan sculptor's atelier located in the vicinity of present Cheng-chou in Honan Province.1980, Helmut Brinker, Eberhard Fischer, Treasures from the Rietberg Museum, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry Honan
• Progressively, the F.L.N. had indeed begun to impose discipline upon the some four hundred thousand Algerian workers in metropolitan France.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 236. From the entry FLN
• The "marketing" centers consisted of the metropolitan districts that were above average in wholesale sales but low in industrial employment.1953, Chester Rapkin, Housing Market Analysis: A Study of Theory and Methods, page 61. From the entry institutional
• This petty form of rudeness is essentially “small-towny”; in metropolitan centers people dress as they please without attracting undue attention.1920 August 12, Helen Decle, “What’s What”, in The Everett Daily Herald, Everett, Wash., →OCLC, page 10, columns 1–2. From the entry small-towny
• The miscellaneous setting of horses, dogs, saddles, wagons, guns, and cow-punchers' paraphernalia oppressed the metropolitan eye of the wrecked sportsman.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New…. From the entry cowpuncher
• When Brooks wrote his Law, then, he took aim at a nationful of metropolitan readers who were broadly Christian, ardently American, and deeply reform-minded.2019, Sara Georgini, Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family, Oxford University Press, →ISBN. From the entry nationful
• As we have seen, even a hundred years ago icestorms could have a devastating effect on electric service in a major metropolitan area.2015, Jerry Hill, Kentucky Weather. From the entry icestorm
• They generally indicate that there may be large overpopulations of some metropolitan areas, but that the welfare losses of these overpopulations are very small.2013, P. Hansen, J. Henderson, M. Labbe, Systems of Cities and Facility Location, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry overpopulations
• To be considered as a candidate for megapolitan inclusion, an area must be a string of contiguous metropolitan and micropolitan counties, uninterrupted by non-metropolitan counties.2009, Robert E. Lang, Arthur C. Nelson, “Megapolitan America: Defining and Applying a New Geography”, in Catherine L. Ross, editor…. From the entry megapolitan
• The metropolitan area of Lima accounts for 43 per cent of gross domestic product, for four-fifths of bank credit and consumer goods production.1987 — UN World Commission on Environment and Development, Brundtland Report, sxn A/42/427. From the entry metropolitan area
• Just as there is no lay-dawn misère in country passenger services, I have to say that there is no lay-down misère in metropolitan passenger services.1980, Victoria Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Volume 353, page 1606. From the entry lay-down misère
• The United States of America is not yet a jungle of metropolitan areas, but we are citifying at a very rapid pace.1970, United States House Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on Appropriations. From the entry citify
• While we all appreciate the problems of metropolitan areas, I think we are already overfeeding such sections with liberal doses of Federal money.1961 March 16, Glenn Cunningham, “A Department of Small Towns and Rural Affairs”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the…. From the entry urbania
• However, by that time the powerful tides of political unionism, metropolitan fashion and commercial expediency were flowing against the language, at least among the Scottish elites.2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath…. From the entry expediency
• A Queens man who faces charges related to five firebombings in the New York City metropolitan area is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said late Tuesday.2012 January 3, Brian Vitagliano and Susan Candiotti, “Police: Man confesses in New York City firebomb attacks”, in CNN. From the entry firebombing
• Figure 12.3 is a map of the Tainan metropolitan area, which shows that the HSR station is located in a suburban area to the southeast of the downtown core.2010, David Emanuel Andersson, Oliver F. Shyr, edited by M. Bruna Zolin, Current Issues in Economic Integration: Can Asia Inspire the…. From the entry Sinshih
• Outside the metropolitan areas most councils (English and Welsh counties, London boroughs, Scottish and Welsh unitaries, and Northern Ireland districts) are now elected en bloc every four years.2005, John Greenwood, Robert Pyper, David Wilson, New Public Administration in Britain. From the entry unitary
• The families are about equally distributed among three communities: a cluster of villages in Sanchih township, the small city of Tanshui, and the metropolitan center of Taipei.1988, Susan Greenhalgh, “Intergenerational Contracts: Familial Roots of Sexual Stratification in Taiwan”, in A Home Divided: Women and…. From the entry Sanchih
• A reporter, who has worked his way up to a top-level and high pressured position with a large metropolitan daily, suffers from a chronic case of "the Mondays."1975, Black Enterprise. From the entry case of the Mondays
• The Four Masters call him High-bishop of Connaught, because he was doubtless the most distinguished prelate of his time, for as yet there was no metropolitan See of Tuam.1902, John Healy, Insula sanctorum et doctorum. From the entry highbishop
• Special commissioners had begun, in the “metropolitan press,” to be the fashion, and the journal in question must have felt it had passed too long for a mere country cousin.1916 [1896], Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet. From the entry country cousin

Meaning of metropolitan

1. noun A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
2. noun The inhabitant of a metropolis.
3. adjective Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.

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How do you use metropolitan in a sentence?

Metropolitan is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Texarkana, Arkansas, and Texarkana, Texas, are twin cities forming the Texarkana metropolitan area.”

What is a short sentence with metropolitan?

“They provided metropolitan science with information and biota.”

What does metropolitan mean?

Metropolitan means a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.