How to use rural in a sentence

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• The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.From the entry die
• They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.From the entry bank
• The new bus operator has promised to improve the frequency of rural services.From the entry operator
• There is not sufficient access to the Internet in many small rural villages.From the entry sufficient
• Having grown up in rural Arkansas, I experienced tremendous culture shock on moving to Harlem.From the entry culture shock
• Even in rural areas, dirt-cheap riverfront property seems to be a thing of the past.From the entry riverfront
• She wrote novels about the rural gentry.From the entry gentry
• The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.From the entry oppress
• We drove on an IR through rural Ohio.From the entry IR
• She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.From the entry earthy
• Armed forces and RCMP officers formed tight grid lines to search the surrounding woods and rural fields.2026 July 25, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Last Call of Jo-Anne Pedersen, the Girl Who Vanished From a Payphone”, in Skip Boring, archived from…. From the entry tight
• Parton’s hometown, the small rural church of his childhood was a paradoxical institution.2026 August 30, Ruth Graham, Emily Cochrane, “Dolly Parton and the ‘Pretty Darn Good’ Southern Church”, in The New York Times, retrieved…. From the entry balm
• A rural station that doesn't comply matters less than a major London terminus.2025 October 15, Philip Haigh, “Merseyrail leads in an unlevel playing field”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 51. From the entry matter
• Furthermore, this provision simplifies the investment incentives and creates “rural qualified opportunity funds” (RQOFs).2025 May, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 25. From the entry RQOF
• The rural north-west of Ireland is not favoured economically, with outmigration still a problem.2024 December 11, Robin Leleux, “Awards reward restored railway survivors”, in RAIL, number 1024, page 53. From the entry outmigration
• On paper, this has resulted in an unprecedented level of Party-state penetration, particularly in rural areas.2024, Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt, Patricia M. Thornton, “How to Think Xi Jinping Thought”, in Stanley Rosen, Daniel C. Lynch, editors…. From the entry Meilan
• The H-2As were men from rural Mexico who were accustomed to mothers and wives performing household chores.2024 October 8, “Harris, Trump, and H-2As”, in Rural Migration News. From the entry H-2A
• But what unites many of these rural railways is that they are shadows of their former selves.2024 August 21, Richard Foster, “Cultivating the growth in leisure travel”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 37. From the entry shadow of one's former self
• But she sympathized most on the issue of government representation of the rural Oregonian region.2023 March 15, Kyung Lah and Jack Hannah, “Partisan rancor in Oregon spills over into Idaho effort to absorb its rural neighbors”, in CNN. From the entry Oregonian
• It was a rural railway that served the fertile Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Wisbech & Upwell Tramway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 46. From the entry flank
• The L&YR built a small number of these trains, known as 'Rail Motors', for rural branch lines.2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond Farewells to Two Final Trains …”, in Rail, number 978, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media…. From the entry fitting
• Kyrgyz-language media platforms, meanwhile, tend to be popular among residents from the regions or rural areas.2023, Gulzat Baialieva, Joldon Kutmanaliev, Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Populists: How Social Media is Reshaping Political Discourse in Central…. From the entry Kyrgyzophone
• Province has called for speeding up the establishment of a rural property rights transfer market.2022, Sun Wenkai, Population and Labour Market Policies in China’s Reform Process, page 19. From the entry transfer market
• Students attend class at a rural primary school in Sheqi county, in China's Henan province.2021 June 13, Jay Matthews, “Big hole in popular view that China beats U.S. in education”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Sheqi
• Men in rural America are taught to "cowboy up" and not speak of depression.August 24, 2018, “A Suicide on the Farm”, in CNN. From the entry cowboy up
• While once a rural area, it is now much more built-up, like the rest of Lhasa.[2018 October 3, “CHINA’S CONTROL STATE IN LHASA”, in International Campaign for Tibet, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2018. From the entry Qüxü
• His living is a good one for someone with a rural hukou.2016 December 21, Cao Li, “China’s New Ride-Hailing Rules Focus on Where Drivers Call Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Chengde
• Noa has been mostly homeschooled, and is poised to graduate high school in this "severely" rural area.2014 October 28, Christopher Langley, “Artbound: Jael Hoffmann: High Desert Sculptor of Internal Landscapes”, in KCET, archived from the…. From the entry amigurumi
• What if—like so many rural parts of the county—this was a mobile black spot?2013, Judith Cutler, Life Sentence, Allison & Busby, →ISBN. From the entry black spot
• The south is more rural, more provincial, and more Fukien Taiwanese.2013, John Franklin Copper, The KMT Returns to Power: Elections in Taiwan 2008 to 2012, page 148. From the entry Fukien
• Hsinwu is a typical rural area located in southwest Taoyuan County.2012, Tung Chuan Ming, Cheng Hsiao Chun, “A preliminary study of the relationship between children’s leisure activity types and outdoor…. From the entry Hsinwu
• Durham County uses both approaches, preserving rural open space as well as cleaning parking lot runoff.2011 February 28, Will Wilson, Constructed Climates: A Primer on Urban Environments, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry constructed
• The biggest impediment to universal automobile use in North Pomfret and rural Vermont was the roads.2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010. From the entry automobility
• Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.2010, Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry purple
• The lack of running water in rural areas often makes Western-style loos hygienic disasters.2009, Katharina Kane, Lonely Planet: The Gambia and Senegal, page 275. From the entry loo
• Gay circuit partiers, rave kids, and people in rural areas didn't identify themselves with the crack-using population.2009, Steven J. Lee, Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction. From the entry partier
• A few years ago it was a dirt-poor outpost populated by rural migrants.2007 August 4, “A critical election for ‘the best dressed man in Turkey’”, in The Week, 625, 16. From the entry dirt-poor
• The rural and suburban lives of lesbian and gay people are made invisible and signified as inauthentic.2006, Gay tourism: culture and context, Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell, →ISBN, page 201. From the entry ghetto
• Industrial and rural expansion is shrinking and destroying the Nile crocodile's natural habitat.2005, Mwelwa Musambachime, Basic Facts on Zambia, page 97. From the entry crocodile
• In rural areas, there is still confusion between xeer and shari'a.2005, Walter Dostal, Wolfgang Kraus, Shattering tradition: custom, law and the individual in the Muslim Mediterranean. From the entry xeer

Meaning of rural

1. adjective Relating to the countryside or to agriculture.
2. noun A person from the countryside; a rustic.

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Questions about rural in a sentence

How do you use rural in a sentence?

Rural is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.”

What is a short sentence with rural?

“She wrote novels about the rural gentry.”

What does rural mean?

Rural means relating to the countryside or to agriculture.