Example Sentences

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Their society was highly organized, urbanized, and supported by advanced agricultural techniques tailored to local conditions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

The island’s cities are dense and highly urbanized, making it easy for small stores to capture heavy foot traffic.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

The country’s east is heavily urbanized, with a population density about 50 times that of Arctic Scandinavia and Finland, where every square mile houses on average five people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

The increasing occurrence of wildfires in urban areas suggests a need for increased outreach to residents of more urbanized neighborhoods and communities that have never experienced wildfires,” the study authors wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

In the main, this delicately balanced state of affairs has not greatly altered since the Civil War, save in those parts of the South which have been industrialized or urbanized.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright