Example Sentences

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“We’re building our own little minicity with facilities, sanitations, rubbish,” said Mr. Donovan, noting that almost everything needed to be transported for hundreds of miles on dirt roads.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2016

The average air traveler spends at least an hour and a half in the terminal, and the minicity inside Terminal 5 tries hard to occupy that time.

From Time Magazine Archive