Example Sentences

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He worried that in the wake of colonialism, Caribbean society was recreating the same class structures, and even finding new imperial metropoles to submit to, above all the United States.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2022

Meanwhile, the surging mainstream popularity of K-pop and Afrobeats has scrambled our sense of pop’s metropoles.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Pickup trucks started pouring into the tiny town of Calvert, smack in the middle of Texas’s four metropoles.

From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2018

This began the skyscraper craze, allowing developers in eastern cities to build and market prestigious real estate in the hearts of crowded eastern metropoles.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

In respect to its meaning, by=town, village, settlement; and By-en=the town, is a term by which Christiania or Copenhagen—the metropoles of Norway and Denmark—are designated.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)