A great city is a wonderful place in a thousand ways, not the least of which is its magical influence upon human relationships.
It was something which is only to be seen once in the course of an ordinary lifetime--the complete ruin of the integral part of a great city.
If there is a single place on the whole of the west coast of Europe especially adapted for the site of a great city, it is the spot on which Queenstown is built.
If this be so, the gentle and refined ought to be very plentiful in Dublin and its environs, for in no other part of this planet known to man are there as many wild flowers to be seen so near a great city as in the environs of Dublin.
For this is a gentleman from a great city, and sits next to the landlady's daughter, who evidently believes in him, and is the object of his especial attention.
The Settlement then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city.
He put out again to sea; and, after some days sail, we arrived at the harbour of a great city, the houses of which were built with good stone.
Scripture, it must be remembered, similarly distinguishes Calah as a place separate from Nineveh, and so far from it that there was room for "a great city" between them.
When Asshur "went forth out of the land of Shinar," it was to build cities, one of which is expressly called "a great city.
An ancient tradition had long been current amongst them, that wherever they should behold an eagle seated upon a nopal whose roots pierced a rock, there they should found a great city.
On the second of January we expect to take our final departure from the "great city of the lake.
The same thing may be said of a canal, an aqueduct, or a great pipe for bringing water to supply a great city.
Also, inland navigations, and the supply of water to a great city, ib.
But as soon as he comes into a great city, he is sunk in obscurity and darkness.
A great city might be beautiful to others: to her it was only as its gilded cage is to a mountain bird.
There is no desert wider, no maze more unending, than a great city.
Orange street seems that centre from which radiates the avenues of every vice known to a great city.
The point which projects northward into the lake, from the Michigan Peninsula, to form this strait, is admirably located for a great city.
The fate of a great citylay on his heart, and he could not sleep.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great city" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
