How to Use city centre in a Sentence

city centre

noun
  • The stadium lies around 17 miles from Manchester city centre in the north west of England.
    — Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But what happened on an otherwise normal early Saturday morning at the club’s training ground, to the south of Lisbon city centre, wasn’t really about him.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Mourinho travelled to Madrid last week and met at a city centre hotel with general manager Jose Angel Sanchez and chief scout Juni Calafat.
    — David Ornstein, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • Johnny Walker Princes Street in Edinburgh has already demonstrated the kind of footfall that can be generated by a city centre experience.
    — Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Unlike some of Dubai’s city centre skyscrapers, where rooms are hermetically sealed within glass and steel, every accommodation comes with its own spacious balcony for lounging and gazing at the sun setting over the sea or the city lighting up at dusk.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026
  • While Industry depicts the corporate corridors of London’s finance world, the Welsh capital’s city centre repeatedly doubles for the City’s skyscraper landscape, with local streets and buildings dressed to resemble London’s business district.
    — Chloe Laws, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2026
  • In February, Ciria’s campaign paid for a huge advertising banner in Barcelona’s city centre of a picture of Messi holding up his No 10 Barca shirt (obscuring his face) — referencing his iconic celebration during a Clasico win against arch-rivals Real Madrid at the Bernabeu in 2017.
    — Pol Ballús, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026

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