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Example sentences for "small city"

  • Bir is a small city in which provisions are very scarce, situated in Asia Minor, [in lat.

  • At Feluchia a small city on the Euphrates, the merchants pull their boats to pieces or sell them for a small price; as a boat that cost forty or fifty chequins at Bir sells only at Feluchia for seven or eight chequins.

  • He then took Bethsura, which was a small city; but at a place called Bethzacharis, where the passage was narrow, Judas met him with his army.

  • Slangerup was only a small city, but it had a new and very beautiful church, which still stands almost unchanged.

  • His mother settled in Prastø, a small city a few miles from Udby, and Grundtvig returned to Copenhagen to search for a new position, a task that this time proved both long and painful.

  • It came, therefore, as a signal disappointment to all that he was the first to break the happy circle by accepting a call as assistant pastor at Christ church in Tønder, a small city a few miles south of Randrup.

  • Although Ribe was a small city, its large cathedral was usually crowded whenever it was known that Brorson would conduct the service.

  • It was an agricultural community, but in the midst of it a village grew, which in the course of time became a small city.

  • In a small city or town, there may be a volunteer fire company composed of men who, when a fire breaks out, leave their usual occupations to save the property.

  • It has a small city, together with a temple to Circe and an altar to Minerva; they likewise say that a cup is shown which belonged to Ulysses.

  • Then from Heracleia to Pyrrha, a small city, is about 100 stadia by sea, but a little more from Miletus to Heracleia, if we include the winding of the bays.

  • Rather picture to yourself a small city of low buildings and narrow streets that had been completely burned down in a single night.

  • Those who sat there were but the magistrates of a small city; but behind them loomed up Rome, whose vast shadow embraced and magnified everything.

  • Pompeii was a small city of only thirty thousand souls; something like what Geneva was thirty years ago.

  • We are, then, going to visit a small city subordinate to Rome, much less than Marseilles is to Paris, and a little more so than Geneva is to Berne.

  • They made a quick passage, and on the fifth day came to an anchor at Minoa, a small city in that part of Sicily which belonged to the Carthaginians.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small city" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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