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

Kyiv has been under near continuous aerial attack for eight days, with strikes hitting multiple buildings inside the city center as well as warehouses and factories – including one that is producing Coca-Cola – in the suburbs. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026

Save the Last Dance stars Stiles as Sara Johnson, a plucky 17-year-old from the suburbs of Chicago chasing dance dreams that seem increasingly unstable after her mother is killed, forcing her to relocate to the city’s gritty South Side. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026

Subscribe to hear this story The deer herd in metro Detroit keeps growing and so does the pressure on local officials to find a way to manage the animals in the suburbs. — Susan Bromley, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2026

One day, her teen-age daughter, on the way to choir practice, witnessed ICE detaining someone outside her bus; Bre sent her children to stay with relatives in the suburbs. — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026