Manhattan

//mænˈhætn̩//

"Manhattan" in a Sentence (16 examples)

I'd like a Manhattan.

The daily trek to midtown Manhattan takes about an hour and a half.

Hailing a cab in Manhattan at 5:00 p.m. is nearly impossible.

Manhattan is the best-known borough in New York.

What's the fastest way to get to Manhattan?

This city is as hectic as Manhattan.

This island is six times bigger than Manhattan.

The island is six times the size of Manhattan.

Traffic in Manhattan is a problem.

Traffic is a problem in Manhattan.

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Holonyms: New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World

Meronyms: Harlem, Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Lower East Side, Madison Avenue, Wall Street, World Trade Center, Battery

Near-synonyms: New York County, County of New York (coterminous)

Lo, body and soul—this land, / My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships, / The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio’s shores and flashing Missouri, / And ever the far-spreading prairies cover’d with grass and corn.

Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”

Manhattan. Dry Manhattan on the rocks.

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