suburbs
- plural of suburb.
Example Sentences
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Whether you were in France, the Sahara Desert or Chile, the sky "would no longer be clear, resembling instead the sky seen in the suburbs of a city," he warned.
From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026
The challenges faced by rural communities and cities in the postwar era coincided with the rapid growth of suburbs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
According to Variety, the script followed Madonna from her upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit, her artistic awakening in 1980s New York City, and concluded around the 1998 release of “Ray of Light.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
As a Black kid growing up in the Michigan suburbs in the ’90s, my K-12 education on slavery was like that of many other Americans — both concise and, to put it mildly, imprecise.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026
Then reports began to filter in that the fever had appeared in the “out parts” of Philadelphia, what we would call the suburbs.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
