Example Sentences

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Still, there are many in Festus who prefer to maintain their city as a semirural bedroom community.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

The most prominent of those proposed projects was at Chavez Ravine, where a semirural Mexican American village was nestled in the hills just north of downtown.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

The highest malnutrition death rates among older Californians from 2020 through 2022 were in rural or semirural counties: Lake, Merced, Butte, Tuolumne, and Sutter.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2023

Save for the 3-D printing shop and the beat-up A.T.M. that operates by handprint, there’s little about Clanton in 2032 that looks much different than it might in the semirural South of the present day.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

They had an interest, almost a charm, for Sophy, these semirural people and vehicles moving in an urban atmosphere, leading a life quite distinct from that of the daytime toilers on the same road. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas