How to Use megalopolis in a Sentence

megalopolis

noun
  • And, of course, there are new places to stay in this ever-evolving megalopolis.
    — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Anita is a slum-dwelling Christian in the megalopolis of Karachi, Pakistan.
    — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The menace might thus be diverted from, say, a megalopolis, or made to miss Earth altogether.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2010
  • 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
  • In February, with this southern megalopolis in the throes of a property frenzy, state banks raised mortgage rates.
    — Dominique Fong, WSJ, 12 July 2017
  • Finally, modern technology allows cities to reach megalopolis sizes by our day.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2016
  • 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
  • Like an underwater megalopolis in Indonesia that, for now, is home to 1,000 species of fish.
    — Priscilla Eakeley, Town & Country, 20 Sep. 2017
  • This week, the ski resort megalopolis welcomed Peak Resorts into its family.
    — Andrea Sachs, The Know, 1 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • While strolling the exhibits, García explains the roots of one of the largest megalopolises on earth and how its evolution lends to the symbology and tradition of the festival.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Many of the volcanoes in Japan are busy tourist destinations, especially those volcanoes close to the megalopolis of Tokyo.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2015
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Malibu, California has long been known as the playground of the rich and famous, a coastal tendril of the 18 million person greater Los Angeles megalopolis.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2016
  • Mlangeni displayed a knack for portraying the whirling African megalopolis with an uncluttered minimalism—wide angles, smoky landscapes, eschewing loudness yet alert to the dramatic.
    — Bongani Madondo, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Boyu promises to be instrumental in helping Starbucks open stores in cities beyond Shanghai, Beijing, and China’s other megalopolises, while keeping costs in check.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Shanghai, Beijing and several Chinese provinces ordered businesses to remain shut through Sunday, leaving the nation’s great megalopolises feeling like ghost towns.
    — Fox News, 9 Feb. 2020
  • 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

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