How to use suburb in a sentence

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• Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.From the entry branch
• As people move to the suburbs, bank branches follow, so they say.From the entry so they say
• She works with the homeless people from the suburbs.From the entry work
• They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.From the entry leafy
• My aunt and uncle lived in a leafily attractive suburb.From the entry leafily
• Many commuters travel daily between the Illinois suburbs and Northwest Indiana, making the Illiana area a bustling, interconnected community.From the entry Illiana
• The suburbs are a city's periphery.From the entry periphery
• Cookie lives in the suburbs and is seldom off her leash, but as a hunting dog, she's got that natural predisposition to get into the underbrush!From the entry hunting dog
• “We knew that young people did not want to work in suburbs.”2025 October 15, The Economist staff, “A billionaire has rebuilt downtown Detroit. But might Dan Gilbert’s project finally run out of…. From the entry greenfield
• South American gangs have also been blamed for a spate of burglaries in wealthy London suburbs.2024 March 17, David Millward, “‘Burglary tourists’ from South America target upmarket LA homes”, in The Telegraph, archived from the…. From the entry burglary tourism
• But even those who avoided this fate can be sometimes seen as “boiz from suburbs”.2022, Elena Chernikova, translated by Serikzhan Tankeyev, Oleg Yefremov: Theaterman, Babelcube, →ISBN. From the entry boiz
• Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual…. From the entry territorial
• Hai-Lung was born in Taiwan and grew up in the Chungho District, a suburb of Taipei.2019 December 12, Eric Borguet, Robert W. Field, Gregory V. Hartland, Ward Plummer, Hongfei Wang, “Tribute to Hai-Lung Dai”, in The…. From the entry Chungho
• The scene heads out from the interior into the hinterland of the suburbs.2016 January 29, Joe Henley, “Live Wire: A brief history of (Taiwanese) punk”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Hsinchuang
• But the city government is in the process of transforming this no-man’s-land into a sparkling new suburb.2012, Tom Miller, “The Construction Orgy: Paving the Fields”, in China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human…. From the entry smokestack
• The large campus of Sydney Uni dominates the suburbs on the city’s western flank.2012, Peter Dragicevich, Pocket Sydney, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry Hogwartsian
• King's essay smacks of a citycentric view that suggests that authentic experiences are impossible in the suburbs.2008 April, Dwell, volume 8, number 5, page 39. From the entry citycentric
• Another ragged, working-class suburb that had become bohemian and then been discovered and slicked up.2006, Kate Holden, In My Skin: A Memoir of Addiction, page 130. From the entry scunge
• Directly after Julia is Patricia, who, oddly enough, is another young blond mother from the suburbs.2004, Z Paul Lorenc, Trish Hall, A Little Work. From the entry A cup
• I Love Lucy jumped the shark when Lucy and Ricky moved to the suburbs.2003, Jon Hein, Jump the Shark, book overview (revised edition; Plume; →ISBN, 9780452284104). From the entry jump the shark
• I live in the near suburb of Paris (5 minutes from the center by the tube).1996 June 11, Ammadj Sedik, “exchange of flat Paris-London (échange d'appartement)”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022. From the entry appartement
• In the suburb of Tsoying (zuǒyíng) are two magnificent temples within a 10-minute walk of each other.[1994 July, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241. From the entry Zuoying
• Like most Australians I have spent much of my life in the suburbs.1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, page 8. From the entry Hills Hoist
• This is Jazz, a ginormous weird looking planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron.1986, Ron Friedman, The Transformers: The Movie, spoken by Jazz. From the entry ginormous
• The majority of the farmland is in the northern and north-eastern suburbs and the Yanliang District.1985, Zhenglin Ma, “Xi'an: The Metropolis of North-West China”, in Victor F.S. Sit, editor, Chinese Cities: The Growth of the Metropolis…. From the entry Yanliang
• Today, blue-movie palaces are as much a part of the suburbs as the wildly proliferating McDonald’ses.1972, Time, volume 101, page 31, column 1. From the entry McDonald's
• He had left the suburbs and was out on the open road.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 75. From the entry open road
• Fo-hsiang Pavilion in I-ho Park, a popular sight-seeing spot in the northwestern suburbs of Peking.1968, Hikotarō Andō, Peking, Kodansha International, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/pekingando008800/page/n5/. From the entry K'un-ming Lake
• Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka.1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458. From the entry intersperse
• Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.1906, George Gissing, “Fate and the Apothecary,”, in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories. From the entry bowery
• In Tucker, another Atlanta suburb, an undocumented man attending church was arrested after ICE agents arrived, pastor Luis Ortiz told CNN.2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez, Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN…. From the entry tucker
• For years, celebrities and tech titans have flocked to Atherton, Calif., a suburb in the heart of Silicon Valley.2024 November 28, Josh Ocampo, “Expensive ZIP Codes Have Something in Common”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Dec…. From the entry Atherton
• Community type is also a segmentation variable and includes urban environments, suburbs, exurbs (remote suburbs), and penturbia (small towns).2014, Frank Kardes, Maria Cronley, Thomas Cline, Consumer Behavior, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry penturbia
• Hostile race relations and chronic unemployment are ignored in the suburbs of Paris, London and Sydney, and boom! there are riots.2013, Peter Westoby, Gerard Dowling, Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development. From the entry boom
• For example, Tiantongyuan, a high-density community of giant housing blocks in the suburbs of northern Beijing, has three subway stations.2012, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history, Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137. From the entry public transport
• A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier.2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19. From the entry leach
• Pope said in an interview at his apartment in a retirement community here in the suburbs of northern Virginia.2007 February 28, Alan Finder, “A Fighter for Colleges That Have Everything but Status”, in New York Times. From the entry unselective
• The modern suburb is a logical corollary of this fossil fuel powered narrative and expresses it in holographic detail.2007, Peter Droege, The Renewable City: A Comprehensive Guide to an Urban Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 39, →ISBN. From the entry ecumenopolitan
• 'Ghastly,' as one wife put it, 'just a lower middle-class suburb with intellectual whatnottery instead of privet hedges.'2003, John D Sutherland, Towards Community Mental Health. From the entry whatnottery

Meaning of suburb

1. noun A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
2. noun The outer part; the environment.
3. noun Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.

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Questions about suburb in a sentence

How do you use suburb in a sentence?

Suburb is used as a noun. For example: “Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.”

What is a short sentence with suburb?

“The suburbs are a city's periphery.”

What does suburb mean?

Suburb means a residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.