How to Use megacity in a Sentence

megacity

noun
  • Think about an Asian megacity hit by a typhoon for a day or two.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Dec. 2016
  • Kumar lived with her family on sidewalks of the megacity and missed a month of school.
    — Time, 6 Oct. 2023
  • But the megacity is trying to dissuade those who don't come from or work in the city from entering.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2020
  • In a megacity, these businesses are like islands serving those who live around them.
    — Rafael Tonon, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The battle goes to the heart of competing visions for the megacity.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2017
  • The noisy, smelly thrum of traffic has been replaced by an unusual quiet for a megacity.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
  • By 2030, it is projected to be the world’s sixth largest megacity.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The first project for the country's Neom megacity recently opened.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The megacity is Africa's most populous and is among its coastal cities threatened by rising sea levels.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The megacity of Bangkok, Thailand, is a perfect example of how it could be done.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 29 July 2023
  • Almost all the action unfolds in Dhaka yet none of the filming took place in the south Asian megacity.
    — The Economist, 4 May 2020
  • This megacity of 18 million sits on a peninsula surrounded by the sea.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Aside from a futuristic megacity-in-the-making, the area now hosts what are being touted as the country’s largest sound stages.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 14 Sep. 2022
  • But in recent weeks several places have fought to beat back new outbreaks, including the megacity of Chongqing.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The plane — the inland megacity at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
    — Julia Wickstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Nearly half of Uruguayans live in the coastal megacity of Montevideo.
    — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Mbandaka, with more than a million people and easy transport to the megacity of Kinshasa.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 21 May 2018
  • In the megacity of Mumbai, the rains come in terrifying cloudbursts.
    — Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
  • The desert factory, not the megacity, offers the best view of the capitalist sublime.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The inland megacity of Chongqing said residents no longer need to test negative to take public transport.
    — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Three years ago, Lagos, a megacity of more than 20 million, was buzzing with new startups and jobless rates were the lowest in years.
    — Paul Wallace, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017
  • Saudi Arabia plans to build Neom, a futuristic megacity in the middle of the desert.
    — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The river running through the megacity of 17 million people — one of the largest in Africa — burst its banks and submerged major roads.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The glitzy megacity of Jakarta pulsated with the energy of hosting one of the most important sporting events of the year.
    — Lauren Decicca, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Globally, one in eight of those city dwellers lives in a megacity, defined by the UN as a place with more than 10 million people.
    — Martin Roemers, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • The current epicenter is Shanghai, where a megacity of 25 million people has been locked down in two phases for much of the past week.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Apr. 2022
  • In the first week of August, the glitzy megacity of Gurugram, an hour’s drive from New Delhi, was burning.
    — Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • For Jorge Trujillo, the unique design of each rótulo is actually the key to order in a megacity like this one.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2022
  • Some of the most notable projects that are under this Neom umbrella include the Line megacity and twin skyscrapers Epicon.
    — Adam Williams, New Atlas, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The cyclone killed at least 85 people and flattened tens of thousands of homes, many of them in the West Bengal megacity of Kolkata.
    — National Geographic, 29 May 2020

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