How to Use sister city in a Sentence

sister city

noun
  • London is New York’s sister city.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Turns out Beverly Hills’ sister city had a quite a bit to say.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
  • Some of the older ones memorialize settlers who were born in the other sister city and died here.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And now, despite the still-in-place label from the sister city agency, South Side Ald.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Provideniya and Nome agreed to declare themselves each other’s sister city.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Expect the drive to take an hour, and make sure to budget time to explore Ouray, Silverton’s sister city.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2023
  • In some ways, Los Angeles has become New York’s sister city of slices.
    — Ed Levine, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Next to the tree was a plaque recognizing the sister city of Kensington, Md.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Since then residents of Cincinnati's sister city in Ukraine have been bombed, killed and watched parts of their city turn to rubble.
    — Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Zacatecas is a sister city of Carpentersville.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The two cities are hoping this sister city partnership will help cultivate cultural and student exchanges.
    — Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Salt Lake City and Matsumoto also share Olympic sister city status.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 July 2023
  • Luckily, Kansas City’s sister city committee with Xi’an had planned ahead.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2024
  • The area that now encompasses the skate park and what will become the new pocket park was renamed Wexford Park, as part of the sister city initiative.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024
  • Just an hour-and-a-half drive from Dubai, Abu Dhabi is an underrated gem that offers just as much luxury as its more famous sister city.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The Dubai government celebrated the sister city agreement on social media.
    — Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Not every sister city has been without controversy Most sister city votes attract little attention.
    — Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
  • The playwright is intimately familiar with Juárez, sister city of their hometown El Paso just across the border.
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
  • For a select few days in the capital of Northern Ireland, a unique merger of itself and its sister city across the pond, Nashville, occurred.
    — Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Carey was instrumental in establishing the sister city connection with New Ross and the golf tournament.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024
  • The City Council approved the partnership after agreeing to also pursue a sister city in Israel.
    — Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
  • This will be the 11th sister city with which Indianapolis has officially formed cultural and economic ties.
    — Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Aurora may establish a Sister Cities Commission to look into getting a sister city.
    — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2024
  • That wasn’t the case in 2009, when Sacramento voted to make Bethlehem, Palestine, a sister city.
    — Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
  • That's because visitors from its larger northern sister city in Ontario, Canada, keep the border town's economy humming.
    — Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 26 May 2025
  • This bronze sculpture of three Purépecha women lifting a tray of fruit to the sky is a gift to Kansas City from our sister city of Morelia, Mexico.
    — Eric Adler june 24, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
  • This garden is designed with paved walkways going up and down its various installations and is modeled to represent its sister city Yokohama, Japan.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Morelia becomes the city’s second sister city in Mexico after Mexicali, which joined the program in 2013.
    — Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
  • In North Little Rock, where the homicide toll is lower than its more-populous sister city, the first year of the pandemic corresponded with a large spike in homicides, data showed.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 July 2023
  • Among them was school board member Mary Kay Baum, who hiked into the nearby mountains to avoid a military blockade and deliver the sister city proclamation to village residents.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 Feb. 2025

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