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Example sentences for "large city"

  • One lovely April morning the fugitives stopped for breakfast at an inn on the outskirts of a large city.

  • It is a large city," he said; "you will be lost in the crowd.

  • To do this effectually it was necessary for her to be in a large city--Paris, for example--where she could procure discreet and skilful agents.

  • Cranganore is a large city in the province of Malabar on the mainland, standing near the mouth of a river, by which likewise it is encompassed, inhabited both by idolaters and Christians, and by some Jews who are held in small esteem.

  • Melinda is a large city, with fair streets, and many good houses of stone and lime, containing several storeys, with windows, and having terraced roofs made of lime and earth.

  • Mendoça died on his return to Spain, but most part of his men remained in the country on the Rio Plata, where they built a large city, containing now 2000 houses, in which great numbers of Indians dwell along with the Spaniards.

  • The lover of nature gazes with delight on the beauties of the landscape; the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant look.

  • We gratify a child by showing him the sights of a large city; we indulge him in some extra expense on such an occasion; we humor him when he is tired and exacting.

  • On nearing the land, they sailed along it until they came in sight of a large city of thatched houses, in a bay called Cananor.

  • Organization of a police department in a large city.

  • In the mean time intelligence arrived that Cæsar had taken Ariminum,[341] a large city of Italy, and was marching straight upon Rome with all his force.

  • Let us, from a slight elevation, watch the busy life of a large city.

  • It is a curious study to watch the faces one meets in a large city or town.

  • No one, unless they were fanatics, would think of distributing religious tracts to the poor half starved ignorant portion of a large city.

  • It is surrounded by a most fertile country and possesses every element for the growth of a large city.

  • It is by no means unusual for the residents of a large city or town to receive through the newspapers a notification that the city water supply is running low and that economy should be exercised in its use.

  • Everywhere in a large city or in a small village, smoke is seen, indicating the presence of fire; hence there must exist a large supply of oxygen to keep all the fires alive.

  • The problem of supplying a large city with an abundance of pure water is among the most difficult tasks which city officials have to perform, and is one little understood and appreciated by the average citizen.

  • A girl street-rover is to my mind the most painful figure in all the unfortunate crowd of a large city.

  • We do "place out" a certain number of such children; but the great majority of our little emigrants are the "waifs and strays" of the streets in a large city.

  • One of the greatest evils connected with charities in a large city is the unreasonable tendency to multiply them.

  • Seleuceia also, a large city on the river Hedyphon,[516] was taken.

  • After the Xanthus follows Patara, which is also a large city with a harbour, and containing a temple of Apollo.

  • Between the Indus and the Hydaspes is Taxila, a large city, and governed by good laws.

  • Joe and Jim Tracy met a certain train that came in from a large city, and saw alight from it two quiet, unassuming men.

  • The circus opened one afternoon in a large city--one in which lived many thousands of men employed in a large ship-building plant.

  • There are twelve principal gates; and at the distance of about eight miles from every one of these there is a large city, each of them larger, in my opinion, than Venice or Padua.

  • Soldania is a large city, but very cold, from its situation in the mountains, and has considerable trade, and abundance of good water.

  • And between the station of each wife there is the distance of a stone's throw, so that the court of a rich Moal appears like a large city, but in which there are very few men.

  • Without open spaces appropriately placed, it is impossible, in a large city, to have well ventilated streets, and to keep the air of the houses sweet and clean.

  • The educational value of a park to the community of a large city is second only to its sanitary value.

  • Thence it is one day's journey to Saida, which is Sidon, a large city, with about twenty Jews.

  • It is a large city, and contains about 300 Jews, some of them men of learning, and at their head are R.

  • Thence it is about two days' journey to Palermo, which is a large city.

  • The boys went back to their hotel, and the next day they took a pleasant auto ride in the suburbs of Broadlands, which was quite a large city.

  • Then they saw a large city, slightly to the south.

  • Park Haven was a large city, a junction place for several railroads, and located right on the edge of a stretch of level country which made an ideal place for airship trials.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large city" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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