How to Use megacity in a Sentence

megacity

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  • The battle goes to the heart of competing visions for the megacity.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2017
  • By 2030, it is projected to be the world’s sixth largest megacity.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Almost all the action unfolds in Dhaka yet none of the filming took place in the south Asian megacity.
    — The Economist, 4 May 2020
  • The megacity of Bangkok, Thailand, is a perfect example of how it could be done.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 29 July 2023
  • Once a small fishing village on the banks of the Congo River, Kinshasa has grown into a megacity, one of the largest in Africa.
    — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The plane — the inland megacity at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
    — Julia Wickstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Japan The country has been buzzing with anticipation ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics — but that's hardly the only thing to do in the largest megacity in the world, let alone the country.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2019
  • That’s the question many were asking in the first 10 days of this year, after a new form of pneumonia emerged in Wuhan, a megacity in central China.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Saudi Arabia plans to build Neom, a futuristic megacity in the middle of the desert.
    — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Nearly half of Uruguayans live in the coastal megacity of Montevideo.
    — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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 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 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
  • The megacity is Africa's most populous and is among its coastal cities threatened by rising sea levels.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The grounds where it is held, at the convergence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, transform for three months every 12 years into a teeming megacity.
    — Rebecca Byerly, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2015
  • Mbandaka, with more than a million people and easy transport to the megacity of Kinshasa.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 21 May 2018
  • 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
  • Greater Cairo was the second most polluted large city, with India’s other great megacity of Mumbai ranked fourth on the list and Beijing fifth.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
  • Tan Chunmiao left his rural hometown in the mountains in 2011 for a factory job in the booming Pearl River megacity of Guangzhou.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2022
  • This megacity of 18 million sits on a peninsula surrounded by the sea.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The resulting energy shortfall closed factories in Sichuan and the neighboring megacity of Chongqing, rippling out along the supply chain and more than 1,000 miles to the east to briefly snuff out the lights along the Bund.
    — Brian Spegele, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • On Thursday evening, an oil tanker exploded in Lagos, Nigeria, setting more than 50 cars on fire during rush hour in the megacity.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 29 June 2018
  • 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

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