Below you will find example sentences with "largest city". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Largest City in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: largest
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.7 words

Words in this phrase

largest city

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • largest can mean: superlative form of large: most large Common word
  • city can mean: A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

ahmedabad the largest city in indian 1× and the largest city in the 1× and the largest city on the 1× australia s largest city sydney lifted 1× containing the largest city and eemsmond 1× is the largest city in texas 1× is the largest city of pakistan 1× s second largest city after glasgow 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

as of 2014 1× australia s largest 1× byrne was the 1× cagliari is the 1× currently groningen is 1× demographics main karachi 1×

Common sentence endings:

a national park 1× area in malaysia 1× city is liepaja 1× fow second city 1× in franconia franken 1× in the province 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

world 5× main 5× united 3× states 3× citation 3× region 3× area 3× population 3× urban 3× third 2× first 2× came 2×

Related phrases

manchester city oklahoma city city council york city mexico city gaza city ocean city iowa city atlantic city jersey city

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around largest:

world largest 20× third largest 20× largest exporter 9× fourth largest 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

largely dependent large pot large portion large part large firms large files

Just after it in the phrase index:

largest economy largest exporter largest holding largest naval largest producer las vegas

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

largest economy largest exporter largest producer largest holding largest naval

Same ending:

manchester city oklahoma city york city mexico city gaza city ocean city

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "largest city" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as ahmedabad the largest city in indian, and the largest city in the, world, main and united stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with manchester city, oklahoma city, city council, world largest, third largest and largest exporter, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with largest city

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Penang is the second largest city and second largest urban area in Malaysia. (13 words)

It is the second-largest city in Bavaria (after Munich), and the largest in Franconia (Franken). (16 words)

This makes Edinburgh Scotland's second largest city after Glasgow and the seventh largest in Britain. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

Many first came to San Francisco, which was then the largest city in California, which was known as "Dai Fow" (The Big City) and some came eventually to Sacramento (then the second-largest city in California), which is known as "Yee Fow" (Second City). (44 words)

It is the administrative centre of the Indre-et-Loire department and the largest city in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France (although it is not the capital, which is the region's second-largest city, Orléans ). (39 words)

Trump landed in Ahmedabad, the largest city in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, to a roadshow and a huge reception in a 110,000-seat cricket stadium said to be the world’s largest. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

The largest city in Latvia is Riga, the second largest city is Daugavpils and the third largest city is Liepaja.

Many first came to San Francisco, which was then the largest city in California, which was known as "Dai Fow" (The Big City) and some came eventually to Sacramento (then the second-largest city in California), which is known as "Yee Fow" (Second City).

Australia's largest city Sydney lifted quarantine restrictions on travelers from New Zealand while the second largest city, Melbourne, marked the 100th day of one the world's longest pandemic lockdowns.

Byrne was the first and only female mayor of Chicago, the second largest city in the United States at the time, and the largest U.S. city to have had a female mayor to date.

Cagliari is the 26th largest city in Italy and the largest city on the island of Sardinia.

For main main coord-7.3074 Derry (main citation ), officially Londonderry (main ), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland citation citation and the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland.

It is the administrative centre of the Indre-et-Loire department and the largest city in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France (although it is not the capital, which is the region's second-largest city, Orléans ).

The city covers more than convert and is the second largest city in Cameron County, as well as the sixth largest in the Rio Grande Valley.

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While Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States, the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is larger than that of Houston.

As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region and the thirteenth-largest in the Arab world.

Milwaukee is Wisconsin’s largest city, with about 600,000 people, and is home to the state’s largest minority population.

Trump landed in Ahmedabad, the largest city in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, to a roadshow and a huge reception in a 110,000-seat cricket stadium said to be the world’s largest.

Currently, Groningen is the most populated and most densely populated municipality, containing the largest city, and Eemsmond is the largest municipality, containing a large part of the Wadden Sea in the province.

Demographics main Karachi is the largest city of Pakistan and 7th largest in the world with a population of about 24 million.

In 1911, Trieste was the 4th largest city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (3rd largest in the Austrian part of the Monarchy ).

In 2009, Tucson ranked as the 32nd largest city and 52nd largest metropolitan area in the United States.

It is the second-largest city in Bavaria (after Munich), and the largest in Franconia (Franken).

Penang is the second largest city and second largest urban area in Malaysia.

Since 1961, the Tijuca National Park (Parque Nacional da Tijuca), the largest city-surrounded urban forest and the second largest urban forest in the world, has been a National Park.

This makes Edinburgh Scotland's second largest city after Glasgow and the seventh largest in Britain.

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