“I took the metro to work this morning, smoothly commuting through the underground tunnels of London.”

“The state's metropolis was in this area, and most of the merchants, factors, and lawyers lived there.”

“It was a rather dreary day outside, which really wasn't unusual in the busy metropolis of San Francisco.”

“Here I was in this tiny ramshackle village, St Paul's, the complete antithesis of the metropolis.”

“State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole.”

“Returning to September 1959, he already felt that the only chance left for a French Algeria was action in the metropole.”

“Many writers have believed, however, that the modern European empires did involve such a systematic robbing of colonies to enrich the metropole.”

“This area is the ideal choice for those who love the lifestyle of a metropolitan living in a vibrant part of the city.”

“No one was thrilled to see all those chemicals going up into the already questionable air we breathe here in the metroplex.”

“Not long, I'll bet, when it becomes apparent that the metroplex has not been brought back into compliance by these measures.”

“Cost of living is very reasonable here and we have all of the advantages of being near a metroplex in Dallas.”

“But then came the official denial from the Varna metropolitanate that Kiril had resigned from the Synod.”

“Dioceses of Subotica and Zrenjanin entered the newly formed Metropolitanate of Belgrade.”

“This attitude condemns Sydney, with all its potential for stylish metropolitanism, to dozy provincialism.”

“Mrs. Gammit felt abashed at her ignorance, but gratified, at the same time, by the reproach of metropolitanism.”

“All this gives Arles a certain air of metropolitanism, but it does not in the least overshadow the memories of its past.”

“I took the metro to work this morning, smoothly commuting through the underground tunnels of London.”

“I couldn't very well leave a lady at such a time. We small towners are yet to learn the impersonality of metropolitans.”

“Curiously it's metropolitans in Belfast and Dublin who are the most ready to put on cod Fermanagh accents.”

“Specifically, the Board urges a revival of the oversight role of metropolitans, i.e., archbishops overseeing bishops in their province.”

“We have already mentioned that some colonies eventually became metropoleis.”

“New World tropical leafcutter ants create colossal underground metropolises, each housing several million workers that tend huge fungus gardens.”

“He said that in other metropolises such as Tokyo, people living in suburban areas were still considered to be Tokyo residents.”

“The United Nations coined the term megacity in the 1970s to describe metropolises with 10 million or more residents.”

“Among their number were the metropoles of Greece and Rome, the traditional cultural colonizing powers.”

“These movements challenged the conditions under which racialized labor was available for exploitation in the former colonies as well as the metropoles.”

“The shadow that their great houses cast over nearby slave cabins reached as far as the distant metropoles, so that few were untouched by the planters' enormous presence.”