'burbs
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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“There is a mocktail menu pretty much everywhere we go, whether we are eating dinner in the city, the ’burbs, or we spend summers in Montauk,” he said.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2024
“It is the 1st Asian ethnoburb: an ethnic enclave in the ‘burbs that thrives b/c it refuses to assimilate, instead unapologetically catering to its own immigrant community.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2023
Why would I want my perfect summer in the 'burbs to be interrupted by some stupid camp where I wouldn't know anyone?
From Salon • Jul. 16, 2022
They reveal the issues, priorities and absurdities of places, and in the case of Mount’s cartoons, they do that about life in the 'burbs.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2022
It will have to be something more creative than letting gridlock swallow the metropolis as residents avoid transit or flee for the ’burbs.
From Slate • May 13, 2020
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