Example Sentences

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When Ginsburg and others enthuse that everybody was welcome, they mean matrons and stenographers, executives, artists and “bums,” to quote Brooks; a panorama of metropolitanism commingling over coffee and Salisbury steak.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

It is the only metropolitanism worth the name.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2020

The root of the evil is urbanism or metropolitanism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bennietod was Bowery-born and office-bred, and this sad metropolitanism almost made of him a good philosopher.

From Romance Island by Gale, Zona

It was ceasing to be an overgrown town—half village, half city—and was attaining a real metropolitanism.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward