megalopolis

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[ UK /mˌɛɡəlˈɒpəlˌiz/ ]
[ US /ˌmɛɡəˈɫɑpəɫəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)
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How To Use megalopolis In A Sentence

  • LAMB: Living in this kind of megalopolis that we do here on the East Coast. Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster
  • Satellite photos illustrate the same reality: the entire stretch of coast from Abidjan eastward to Lagos in Nigeria is one burgeoning megalopolis.
  • In fact, the city is more of an international megalopolis along the lines of New York, than the mere capital of England.
  • I regret that your post regarding retiring in Yucatan got diverted into some banal semi-intellectual discourse among cloistered word-monks of how sophisticated people refer to the anarchistic megalopolis commonly referred to about the world as Mexico City which, of course, has nothing to do with anything and much less your inquiry regarding the Yucatan Peninsula which is as removed from the Mexico City conurbation as Oughagadougou is from Beijing. Retiring in Yucatan
  • Seoul today is a megalopolis of more than 10 million.
  • For me growing up in the border regions of the United States, the San Diego / Tijuana general megalopolis, code-switching and speaking in two languages is something that millions of people do.
  • The downside of this influx to the great megalopolis was the rise of the urban slum.
  • Do you remember years ago there was a thing called megalopolis? Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
  • I got the lorryman to drop me on the outskirts of the megalopolis and walked in. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • This sprawling megalopolis of more than twenty million continues to increase in size and population every year.
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