How to Use city in a Sentence

city

noun
  • The city is working to make the streets safer.
  • These actions wound the soul of our city.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • And there was strong support from our city.
    — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Some cities would have a sales tax of more than 11%.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • Be sure to include your full name and city/town.
    — Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2026
  • What is clear is that a wounded city is aching again.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Be sure to include your full name and your city/town.
    — Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • And Eugene is such a cool city too.
    — AFAR Media, 15 May 2026
  • Your impact didn’t stop with one team, with one city, or one era.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2026
  • City leaders will then vote on it in June.
    — Steve Large, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But above all, Khartoum is a city of graves.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • These prices may be among the highest per square foot of any city in the world.
    — David Kaufman, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Host cities like Houston will be lucky to break even.
    — Peter Warren, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2026
  • Collins Fire has been burning on city land for two hours.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • What are top 10 cities for nursing salaries?
    — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • No city was designed for this kind of weather.
    — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Soon an entire city could be feeling it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Tbilisi is a city of dappled light.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • The little offshoots are like their city streets.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Most other cities hold elections in even years.
    — Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This is the highlight of the day for so many women now in big cities.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Hail piled up across several cities as the storms swept through.
    — Mike Augustyniak, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • His city of residence was not known.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
  • That city doesn’t have to be imaginary.
    — Tiffany Caban, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • All of the crowds are in those first cities, none of the crowds are in the second cities.
    — Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Its cities have narrow and twisting streets.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
  • So far this year, police have shot and killed four people in the city.
    — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022
  • There are challenges in every city.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The menacing tent cities and the over-the-top drug use on city streets are gone.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Debris from cities and villages is brought here in dump trucks at all hours of the day.
    — Nicole Tung, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024

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