burb
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of burb
By shortening
Example Sentences
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The only O.C. city on the list is Huntington Beach — you know, the ‘burb with an all-Republican council that’s suing California for being a sanctuary state, declared itself a “non-sanctuary” community in January and and plans to place a plaque outside the city’s main library with an acrostic “MAGA” message.
From Los Angeles Times
The bohemian 'burb where seminal rock band The Doors lit their fire in the 1960s.
From BBC
I had plenty more lazy days with my 'burb besties at Park N Pool, Dairy Queen, and Idlewild.
From Salon
My favorite passage in the essay is when Didion — a fifth-generation Californian whose ancestors left the Donner-Reed Party before that group suffered their grisly demise — dismisses Lakewood as a ‘burb of domestic dilettantes ruining a hard-fought paradise. “Places like Lakewood did not exist before the new people came,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times
“The Jesus Music” cites the music’s metaphorical Bethlehem as being the Orange County ’burb of Costa Mesa.
From Los Angeles Times
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