Second city Sentence Examples

Ballarat, the second city of Victoria, lies above 100 m.

Carthage was the second city of the Latin part of the empire, "after Rome the busiest and perhaps the most corrupt city of the West, and the chief centre of Latin culture and letters."

Ballarat is the second city and the chief gold-mining centre of the state.

Although the second city in population in the state, Cincinnati ranked first in 1900 as a manufacturing centre, but lost this pre-eminence to Cleveland in 1905, when the value of Cincinnati's factory product was $166,059,050, an increase of 17.2% over the figures for 1900.

Settlement on the south-western coast began about 688 B.C. with the joint Cretan and Rhodian settlement of Gela, and went on in the foundation of Selinus (the most distant Greek city on this side), of Camarina, and in 582 B.C. of the Geloan settlement of Acragas (Agrigentum, Girgenti), planted on a high hill, a little way from the sea, which became the second city of Hellenic Sicily.

Down to the close of the 18th century, when Rio de Janeiro became important, Recife was the second city of Brazil, and for a time its most important port.

These seven were Chicago (1,698,575), the second city in population in the United States, Peoria (56,100), Quincy (36,252), Springfield (34,159), Rockford (31,051), East St Louis (29,655), and Joliet (29,353).

Under French rule Oran has regained its ancient commercial activity and has become the second city in Algeria.

Newcastle is the second city in New South Wales, the fourth port of Australia, and the seat of an Anglican bishop. The city rises steeply from the sea, and possesses numerous fine buildings, among which may be mentioned the railway station, post office, custom-house, the cathedral of Christ Church, the school of art with its large library, and the Victoria Theatre.

In 1828 Louisville was chartered as a city; in 1851 it received a second city charter; in 1870, a third; and in 1893, a fourth.

The greatness of Aix was due to the latter, who between 777 and 786 built a magnificent palace on the site of that of his father, raised the place to the rank of the second city of the empire, and made it for a while the centre of Western culture and learning.

Though it was restored after the battle of Marathon, on a site at a little distance from its original position, it never regained its former eminence, but it was still the second city in the island.

He went on to Denison University in Granville, Ohio, before pursuing acting at Chicago's famed Second City.

His first role was in the 1991 film Curly Sue, but he continued to teach improvisational comedy at Second City and perform with their comedy troupe from 1990-1996.

Steve Carell met his wife, Nancy Walls, when she was a student in his improv class at Second City.

Stephen Colbert, whom Carell appeared with on The Daily Show, was Carell's understudy at one time in the Second City troupe.

She is a comedic genius, having started out with the iconic Second City comedy troupe in Chicago, Illinois, and quickly moving on the news desk on Saturday Night Live.

He soon discovered improvisational theater, first performing at the Annoyance Theatre, and after graduating in 1986, he joined the famed Second City in Chicago - answering phones.

As an employee, he took classes at the Second City training center and was later hired for the touring company.

Colbert left Second City to collaborate with Sedaris and Dinello on a Comedy Central sketch series called Exit 57.

Upon her college graduation in 1992, she headed to Chicago and trained with the famed comedy troupe, The Second City.

The couple met at Second City and dated for seven years.

Her sketch for "Boston Teens," which featured Jimmy Fallon and Rachel Dratch, originated at Second City.

Fey went on to study comedy at The Second City in Chicago.