Preposition: of

• age: KS3 online teachers ' package World city This gallery describes how London became the first great metropolis of the industrial age.

• people: I spent quite some time in Tehran, a loud, chaotic metropolis of 14 million people.

Preposition: after

• serenity: Pokhara will seem like a teeming metropolis after the serenity of the hill trails.

Converse of object

• teem: A coral reef is a teeming metropolis built upon the living skeletons of tiny soft polyps.

• bustle: At the heart of this empire was the bustling, volatile metropolis of Rome - the center of the known world at the time.

• buzz: So, in the meantime, enjoy these photographs of the buzzing metropolis which is, erm, Charlton Village.

• grow: The Forbidden City, once home to China's imperial rulers, now the center of a fast growing metropolis.

• become: Salt River would be made navigable; Florida would become a metropolis.

• build: To build a metropolis, players must invest in city improvements.

Adjective modifier

• sprawling: Deborah is taken to the local hospital; a huge sprawling medical metropolis where the majority of the action in the film takes place.

• cosmopolitan: Valencia Further along the coast from the Costa Blanca lies Spain's largest city, the cosmopolitan metropolis of Valencia.

• thriving: With his client well into their a thriving metropolis.

• imperial: Moreover, London was the imperial metropolis, and Dublin remained for all its efforts a colonial capital.

• modern: They are a tangible, visual link to the heart of the City from the four corners of the modern metropolis.

Noun used with modifier

• century: Music from the hybrid soul of a 21st century metropolis.

• fashion: Out and about in Bergamo the thriving fashion metropolis of Milan is just one hour outside Bergamo.