Example sentences for: suburb

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

  • Some 30 km (15 miles) of subterranean galleries (linked by Métro) stretch across the city, taking in Place Ville-Marie and Place Bonaventure, Les Terrasses, Place des Arts, and Complexe Desjardins, and even passing under the St. Lawrence River to the suburb of Longueuil on the south shore.

  • The small suburb of Babelsberg, to the east of Potsdam, was home to the film industry which rivaled Hollywood in the 1920s.

  • The Sydney Morning Herald also prominently reported the murder, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, of 30-year-old Dutch journalist Sander Thoenes, who was the correspondent in Jakarta for the Financial Times of London and the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland and who also wrote occasionally for the Christian Science Monitor . He was riding on the back of a motorcycle through the deserted Dili suburb of Becora when, according to his driver, who survived, six men in Indonesian army uniforms opened fire.

  • Panathanaikos Football Stadium is located at Kifissia, a northern suburb — this will be the major stadium for the 2004 Olympic Games, which will be held in the city.

  • Brodkey's work was always obviously, insistently, autobiographical--but one could get muddled trying to decide if, for instance, this story's narrator from a St. Louis suburb was the same as that story's narrator from a St. Louis suburb.


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