Example Sentences

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At every semiurban stop along the way, from Rapid City, South Dakota, to Missoula, Montana, to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, I laughed at what passes for density and congestion west of the Mississippi.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2022

Layered over such prose poetry, in a dozen essays about the desert, the semiurban corners of L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2021

Today the county is 96% fully developed, and the old distinctions between town and country are completely blurred in the semiurban mess.

From Time Magazine Archive