How to Use megalopolis in a Sentence

megalopolis

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  • And, of course, there are new places to stay in this ever-evolving megalopolis.
    — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Anita is a slum-dwelling Christian in the megalopolis of Karachi, Pakistan.
    — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • At a clothing shop in Turkey’s megalopolis late last week, there were few customers but Esra Yildirim was still in a rush.
    — Yeliz Candemir, WSJ, 30 May 2018
  • The coastal megalopolis continues to pump too much water from its aquifers, causing the land to collapse by almost a foot a year in some places.
    — Lydia Horne, WIRED, 19 July 2019
  • But the more recent one was much closer to the country’s megalopolis, Mexico City, part of which is built on the soft soil of a lake bed and is thus prone to seismic shaking.
    — The Economist, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Like an underwater megalopolis in Indonesia that, for now, is home to 1,000 species of fish.
    — Priscilla Eakeley, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The menace might thus be diverted from, say, a megalopolis, or made to miss Earth altogether.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2010
  • In February, with this southern megalopolis in the throes of a property frenzy, state banks raised mortgage rates.
    — Dominique Fong, WSJ, 12 July 2017
  • Benin City is not a megalopolis like Lagos, but its 1.8 million people still generate a lot of traffic.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And a scion of one of the richest family empires in this megalopolis is making a bold bet to turn a dowdy strip of waterfront into a glamorous front-row seat to one of the world’s most stunning skylines.
    — Wsj Real Estate, WSJ, 5 July 2017
  • But many structures that surrounded the ruins remained hidden beneath the dense colonial city—and now, the modern megalopolis.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
  • In a land where urbanization knows few bounds, where homes and offices are torn down in endless succession, the only land most Japanese know is the growing sprawl of the megalopolis.
    — David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall, WIRED, 1 July 1996
  • American and western troops on the ground in Kabul are surrounded by thousands of Taliban fighters in a megalopolis of 4.4 million, with the airport their only lifeline to the world.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Although Shanghai has a reputation as a futuristic megalopolis, the allure of this city — the largest in China, with a population of more than 25 million — is the dichotomy of the old and the new.
    — John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
  • Her decision makes a lot of sense, as much of the infill and expansion that led to our very own mini-megalopolis fundamentally paralleled the rise of the internet.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Evening rush hour descending from Big Sky Resort can slow to a megalopolis crawl as hourly workers begin their long trek home to more affordable locales, sometimes in next-door Idaho.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • But their impact is felt most keenly in greater Cairo, where a sprawling megalopolis of about 20 million inhabitants is spilling into the surrounding desert and farmland.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • This week, the ski resort megalopolis welcomed Peak Resorts into its family.
    — Andrea Sachs, The Know, 1 Oct. 2019
  • This has led to fears that while securing a future for the sinking megalopolis, Indonesian officials are sinking the future of one of the planet's most remarkable creatures.
    — CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Leave a Note The brand's third hotel in China is, as custom dictates in this megalopolis of scaffolding and swinging cranes, a new-build grown from the rubble of a demolished structure, amid the Bund's historic sweep of colonial edifices.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • CNN Travel asked five Tokyo insiders to offer local perspectives on how best to spend time and navigate this sprawling megalopolis.
    — Kate Springer, CNN, 13 June 2017
  • How to squeeze the world’s population into one, super-dense megalopolis in order to regenerate the globe’s natural resources?
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Novaex recently broke ground at its first theme park that will use the intellectual property of Magic Castle at a site near Guangzhou, a megalopolis in rich southern province Guangdong.
    — Dominique Fong, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • China wants its Pearl River Delta megalopolis, a global manufacturing engine with more people than France, to be even more dominant.
    — Bloomberg.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • But as the megalopolis grew, the zoo became surrounded by an urban sprawl of busy avenues with honking buses and screeching cars near the animal enclosures, where on a recent day a solitary lion spent his time chasing his tail in circles.
    — Luis Andres Henao, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Finally, modern technology allows cities to reach megalopolis sizes by our day.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2016
  • Thoreau came of age nearly 200 years ago, when the U.S. was still immensely undeveloped—even before most of the Northeast was dewilded in favor of the highways, railroads and subdivisions that make up today’s megalopolis.
    — Jordan Salama, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Many Vermonters have mobilized to oppose his vision of a megalopolis of 1 million people, nearly twice the state’s current population.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
  • Also, a good many of us have made a tentative peace with what these collapsologues seem to see as our irredeemably damaged existence in the modern megalopolis, fractured irreparably between our public and private selves.
    — Harrison Stetler, The New York Review of Books, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Though Wagner was wrong to predict that Vienna would become such a city, his thinking about infinite urban expansion can easily be applied to megalopolises in modern-day Asia.
    — A. J. Goldmann, WSJ, 12 June 2018

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