Example sentences for: boroughs

How can you use “boroughs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Blue-collar residents of the outer boroughs, about TV shows such as The King of Queens and comic strips such as Dumb Bastards From Brooklyn ."-- Alex Balk

  • As someone who's lived in four of the five boroughs, whose family (on both sides) has lived in the city since arriving in America, and who worked for the City of New York, I am offended.

  • They shortchange the outer boroughs.

  • 5 As defined for the 1980 census, urban areas include: (a) places of 2,500 or more inhabitants incorporated as cities, villages, boroughs (except Alaska and New York) and towns (except in the New England states, New York and Wisconsin), but excludes those persons living in the rural portions of extended cities; (b) census designated places of 2,500 or more inhabitants; and (c) other areas, incorporated or unincorporated, included in urbanized areas.

  • In addition, the FDNY had a dispatch frequency for each of the five boroughs; these were not point-to-point channels and could be monitored from around the city.


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