Example Sentences

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Despite cities’ trash, speeding cars, dogs, and humans, capybaras see plenty of upsides in urban riverside living: water, food, and shelter—plus no pumas, who have been known to eat young capybaras.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

Those investments changed the complexion of Lisbon and Porto, as land values rose and the cities’ housing markets were reshaped, according to the report, which quantifies these changes.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Within a generation, architects realized that they could safely sketch out—and build—the giant office towers that have defined big cities’ skylines ever since.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

It held an exhibition showing how we might soon be able to grow buildings from fungus, and other innovative ways to reduce cities' environmental impact.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

These narrow thoroughfares had the stillness which broods over all ancient cities' by-ways.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman