Thesaurus results for SUBURB

suburb

noun

Definition of suburb

as in town

an community near a larger city a small suburb outside of Dallas

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Recent Examples of suburb Ihsan Yaghi looks over what remains of her house on a visit from Beirut's southern suburbs, where she has been displaced. — Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026 Search boats and helicopters extensively searched the ocean off Sorrento Beach in Perth's northern suburbs after the late morning attack without finding any trace of the victim, a police statement said. — ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026 Boats and helicopters searched the ocean off Sorrento Beach in Perth's northern suburbs after the late-morning attack, a police statement said. — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 The singer died of natural causes on Tuesday in the Michigan suburb of Redford Township, per the Detroit Free Press. — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for suburb

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Noun

Now based in Milan, Marcon was born in 1985 in Busto Arsizio, a town an hour’s drive to the northwest of the city.

— Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026
George had a gold molar, a biology degree from the University of Nairobi, and—according to himself—a girlfriend in every town from Eldoret to Mombasa.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

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The strikes killed four people in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
It’s banned in Oxford but can still be obtained in surrounding cities.

— Josh Feldman, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2026