How to Use city-state in a Sentence

city-state

noun
  • And the Asian city-state has won that accolade nine times in the last 11 years.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The Corinthian style is named for Corinth, an ancient Greek city-state about 50 miles west of Athens.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The Corinthian style is named for Corinth, an ancient Greek city-state about 50 miles west of Athens.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Just how the small city-state of less than 6 million people has come to be the preferred venue for top artists is no mystery.
    — Time, 22 June 2023
  • On the tip of the Malaysian peninsula, the island city-state piled up sand to expand its coastline and reclaim land from the sea.
    — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Some 550 years ago the last of the great city-states of the Maya civilization that had flourished in the Americas for centuries met their demise.
    — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The Southeast Asian city-state has been a regional data hub for the U.S. company since 2010.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Asia, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Now the competitions that once united the fractured city-states of Greece connect people around the globe.
    — Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Maria Montessori was born in the province of Ancona in 1870, as Italy was unified out of a patchwork of ancient republics and city-states.
    — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And where better than Monaco, the sovereign city-state home to F1’s most iconic Grand Prix, to unveil such pieces?
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The verdict carried a rare Vatican prison sentence in a city-state with only three jail cells.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The Doge was also, in medieval times, the chief magistrate of city-states such as Venice and Genoa, and acted as a judge to decide questions brought before a court of justice.
    — Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The Doge was also, in medieval times, the chief magistrate of city-states such as Venice and Genoa, and acted as a judge to decide questions brought before a court of justice.
    — Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The Southeast Asian city-state is also dealing with the sudden downsides of success: namely, an epic surge in housing prices.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
  • In this polyglot city-state where people of Chinese descent make up 75 percent of the population, Lunar New Year is a big deal.
    — Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Hansen believes that wastefulness and despoilment sped the collapse of the vast city-states likely controlled by El Mirador.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Adjusting to life in Singapore won’t be much of a hassle since many signs in the culturally diverse city-state are in English.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The rivalries between Greek city-states led to the regular use of bribery to encourage shifts in loyalties and stoke rebellions.
    — Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The rivalries between Greek city-states led to the regular use of bribery to encourage shifts in loyalties and stoke rebellions.
    — Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • These qualities are related and relate to their ability to command the reverence of myriad peoples from the rise of the Greek city-state to the fall of the Roman empire.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • For 11 generations, the Mayan ruler’s dynasty had ruled Copan, a city-state near today’s border between Honduras and Guatemala.
    — Gerardo Aldana, The Conversation, 19 June 2024
  • This city-state packs a world of experiences into its ever-changing skyline and sprawling gardens.
    — Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Dozens of boreholes were drilled into the ground at the site, once a pre-Hispanic city-state, revealing layers of artifacts from various societies.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
  • With distinctive landmarks, backdrops and atmosphere, the Asian city-state is the ideal location to create a humorous addition to the Tom and Jerry canon.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • The history of the Florentine Renaissance can also be told in wars—a continual melee of rival families and city-states—and in the books that were used both to support and to undermine civic freedoms.
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Historians have argued that similar helmets were worn by ancient warriors of many Greek city-states.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Historians have argued that similar helmets were worn by ancient warriors of many Greek city-states.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Barbarians and city-states have merged into one concept, called independents.
    — Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Barbarians and city-states have merged into one concept, called independents.
    — Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Over the last decade, Singapore, a city-state with a population of five million, has quietly become an important partner in this regard.
    — Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2023

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