Example sentences for: suburbs

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

  • I can't think of a more sophisticated way to begin, so I'll just blurt it out: West Lake Hills, Texas, is in no way, shape, or form a hip suburb, no matter what Nick Lemann says in "The Suburbs Have Won."

  • The WP fronts a story about America Online's controversial support for a proposed new road known as the "techway" that would connect the suburbs of Maryland to Northern Virginia.

  • The only character whose pain we don't feel is also the only "normal" one, Stevenson's Trish--a sugary, passive-aggressive gargoyle who embodies everything that made some of us flee the suburbs for the urban jungle.

  • Nassau County alone has given the world Eddie Murphy, Howard Stern, Rosie O'Donnell, and Jerry Seinfeld--four comedians, who for better or worse, probably shape the cutting edge of our national culture more than Charlotte, N.C.; and Berkeley, Calif.; and Austin, Texas; and all the truly hip suburbs with "a patina of sophistication" combined.

  • The City of San Francisco covers only about 46 square miles (119 sq km) at the tip of its peninsula, but its suburbs and satellite communities, with a population of 6 million, spread all around the bay.


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