Of a large city — London Underground line

Usage examples of metropolitan.

Movements of precious metals and ambulatory currency spiked metropolitan areas, while consumer spending showed up as gangs of small people, one per million, flashing their spending areas and products like dust motes dancing on sunlight.

The worst-case scenario would be that some nation or group was able to spread anthrax from an airplane over a major metropolitan area.

Sir, checking the New York metropolitan area, I find no listing for a Linda Barkey, or Barkay.

Sir, checking the New York metropolitan area, I find no listing for a Linda Barkey, or Bar-kay.

The Metropolitan, in his Easter vestments, had gone up to the laurel-decorated platform under the blossoming lemon tree, and now opened the heavy silver Gospel.

He reached Ai-Menas, strode across the forecourt, and greeted tH old lemon tree, under whose blossoming boughs the Metropolitan celebrated the Resurrection every year.

A seat for a Metropolitan borough, or a love of ortolans, or a taste even for new boots will ruin a man who puts himself in the way of ruin.

Metropolitan magnificence, which, if the parvenu could not equal, he at least could imitate, seemed a poor return for the feudal splendour and impartial festivity of an Hungarian magnate.

The government of the kasir succeeded, by exciting the jealousy of Magyar and German, Croat and Hungarian, metropolitan and provincial, in holding the difficult balance, and in preserving the empire in its integrity from the flood which flowed over it with such disintegrating force.

The Washington area was served by a large metropolitan gas company, which meant that there were not a lot of propane customers in or near the city.

The street has been renumbered since then, but it was in the only house which has a bow-window, upon the left-hand side as you go down from the Metropolitan Station.

Places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art that passed by her on the right, residing in Central Park.

Let us suppose our ancient monarchy abolished, our independent hierarchy reduced to a stipendiary sect, the gentlemen of England deprived of their magisterial functions, and metropolitan prefects and sub-prefects established in the counties and principal towns, commanding a vigorous and vigilant police, and backed by an army under the immediate orders of a single House of Parliament.

Chief Detective Inspector Bell and Detective Sergeant Tapsell were assigned to the investigation by the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police and proceeded to Sherbome on 30th December.

They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.