1.   An enterprising cobra on the lam could easily get lost in the bustle of a teeming metropolis like Stoneham.

2.   They must balance the commitment to free navigation enshrined in the Montreaux Convention against the safety of a vital waterway that runs through the heart of a teeming metropolis.

3.   You command a force of agents, biochemists, physicists and engineers assigned to protect a teeming metropolis from alien invasions.

4.   You think that glorified little cowtown peopled by puritanical nerds could even hold a church candle to my teeming metropolis?