Example sentences for: suburb

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

  • In the early '50s, in a famous Middletown -style study of a Chicago suburb referred to as "Lakeville," sociologist Marshall Sklare found that lighting the Hanukkah candles ranked as the most popular "mitzvah," above hosting a Passover Seder and observing the Sabbath.

  • Biden grew up in a white-collar suburb, his father was a car salesman, one grandfather was a state senator, and the only Biden on record as having worked near a mine was a mining engineer.

  • In my suburb, Pennside, the ice cream man was Popsicle Pete--not C rème Brûlée Pete, not Chocolate Mousse Pete.

  • An inside story at the NYT reports on the novel fundraising project undertaken by a fourth-grade class in a Denver suburb.

  • New York also doesn't have a full-blown suburban-nirvana "edge city" suburb, such as Plano, Texas, or Bloomington, Minn., or Tysons Corner, Va.--the kind of suburb that has shiny, enormous malls and "totally planned communities" with spindly little trees and curving streets and thatchy English names.


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