How to Use conurbation in a Sentence
conurbation
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Beyond these coastal conurbations, the outlook is dimmer.
—The Economist, 2018-06-21
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Dubai, a remarkable city-emirate grown rich on the foresight of its rulers and the wits of its inhabitants—both native and immigrant—is much the more complex of the two modern conurbations.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 2020-01-31
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Proximity of the two capitals – federal and state, respectively—in the Ikoyi and Ikeja neighborhoods of the same conurbation, put more pressure on the city.
—Ndubisi Onwuanyi, Quartz Africa, 2019-10-05
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Rapid growth has pushed the Jakarta metropolitan region’s population to some 30 million, creating a conurbation that is highly congested and polluted.
—Washington Post, 2019-08-26
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This isn’t an entirely new thing; most German conurbations already have Umwelt (environmental) zones that bar cars incapable of passing the Euro 4 emissions test from entering them without risk of a sizable fine.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 2018-02-27
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