the suburbs

plural noun

: towns or other areas where people live in houses near a larger city

the suburbs of Chicago

also : one of the suburbs of a city

She left the city and moved to the suburbs.

Examples of the suburbs in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

By 2025, staff members hope to expand their services to four neighborhoods — two within Baltimore, one in the suburbs and one in a more rural area. —Dan Gorenstein, NPR, 11 June 2024

This orientation is particularly bad if the entire fault ruptures because the shaking would commonly begin at the deepest end and move to the shallowest — meaning the shaking energy would likely move from the suburbs of the foothills toward downtown. —Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024

Most insurers will charge a 24-year-old man who lives in a busy city more than a 50-year-old woman who lives in the suburbs, an Arity promotional document states, but what if this particular man is a cautious driver who rarely uses his car while the woman is a road-rager who racks up the miles? —Kashmir Hill, New York Times, 9 June 2024

But graffiti writers look back and describe it as sort of a gritty community center viewed as a safe space for children who loved to draw and paint but didn't have art programs like students who attended elite schools in the suburbs. —Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024