How to Use rural in a Sentence

rural

adjective

• She lives in a rural area.
• The district was once more of a battleground, but rural parts of the district have shifted right in the last decade.
  — Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• In his home state, in the small towns and rural areas that define much of Texas, he was seen as an outsider.
  — Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• The Post was permitted to attend the event at New Life, a modest church on the rural outskirts of Greenville.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2024
• Bracy said the project would be more advantageous if the project was in a more rural area of the county.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
• Growing up in a town in the rural Nevada town of Spring Creek, the 16-year-old had learned how to drive cattle on horseback at the age of 9.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
• But poor rural communities bore the brunt of the damage.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• There’s also the fact that people live closer to forests in some states that boast large rural areas.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 14 June 2023
• For people in small towns and rural areas, the choices are fewer.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• Garner, 51, grew up in Charleston, while Paisley, 50, was born and raised in rural Glen Dale.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
• Living in rural Texas, Jone said she's seen wildlife such as hawks and snakes before – but never like this.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The rural scenery is pretty, but not so majestic as to feel distant.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• Much of it is rural with some industrial towns, such as Portsmouth along the Ohio River.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
• Water had to be brought in via trucks because there are no hydrants in the rural area, officials said.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023
• From rural Preston, Idaho, comes Napoleon Dynamite, a new kind of hero with moon boots and some sweet moves.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
• Turkeys in cities face fewer foes than their brethren in rural areas.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2024
• Wild asparagus can be found across the U.S., mostly in rural areas.
  — Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
• The story revolves around a young waitress working the late shift alone at a rural roadside diner.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
• As the film was being shot in rural areas of Oklahoma, trust and curiosity grew about the process.
  — Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Much of that highway rolls through rural areas and small towns and through Alabama’s Black Belt region, which are some of the poorest counties in the state.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• From the big-city hustle of Kolkata to the onetime Mughal outpost of Murshidabad, with rural towns and villages in between, getting a taste of life Ganges-style was a breeze.
  — Alex Greggery, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
• The body tied last Wednesday's forum to a report concerning NIH funding and rural states.
  — Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023
• One of Senegal’s biggest health problems is the lack of quick and reliable malaria tests in rural areas.
  — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• What’s more, in rural and low-income areas, people tend to spend more than 5% of their food budget at such retailers.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
• That's more than the domestic water use of over 330 million people in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• The report was the second part of the government's official disclosure about what was found in rural New Mexico in the 1940s.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 24 June 2023
• But in the process many people were put out of work; rural and formerly industrialized sections of the country did not keep up with the big cities.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• And across Ukraine, in big cities and rural villages, almost everyone knows a family that has lost someone in the fighting.
  — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The group continues onto rural Tennessee next weekend for four shows at the Cavers in Pelham.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 29 May 2023
• In gauging Brown, one should factor in his roots in segregated rural Texas.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024