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Recent Examples of urban sprawl
The rapid population growth has brought in urban sprawl, traffic gridlock, environmental pollution and a declining quality of urban life.
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Hugo A Loaiciga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Established in 2010 by seven friends from southeastern England, the group has earned international fame and fortune by turning urban sprawl into the ultimate obstacle courses.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2025
Orenstein emphasized the need to minimize urban sprawl in fire-prone areas, while also addressing the long-term challenges posed by climate change.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 17 Feb. 2025
The blazes that began in the hilltop communities surrounding Los Angeles are part of a growing trend of increasingly destructive wildfires fueled by climate change, urban sprawl and inadequate resources for firefighting.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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Hugo A Loaiciga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Established in 2010 by seven friends from southeastern England, the group has earned international fame and fortune by turning urban sprawl into the ultimate obstacle courses.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2025
Orenstein emphasized the need to minimize urban sprawl in fire-prone areas, while also addressing the long-term challenges posed by climate change.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 17 Feb. 2025
The blazes that began in the hilltop communities surrounding Los Angeles are part of a growing trend of increasingly destructive wildfires fueled by climate change, urban sprawl and inadequate resources for firefighting.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for urban sprawl
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urban sprawl
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Goalkeeper Joan Garcia has joined from city rivals Espanyol for his €25million ($28.6m; £21.1m) release clause, while Athletic Club’s Nico Williams has agreed verbal terms with Barca, who do not view his €60m clause as an obstacle.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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But as those cities become more expensive, the population has traveled to the middle for more affordable options.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
26 June 2025
Noun
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His sister’s wedding would take place in a nearly completely white town.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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Now, her life in a town an hour-and-a-half outside Krakow is quieter.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 June 2025
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Drake and a colleague launched an IPS pilot in New Hampshire in the early 1990s, and then followed with pilots in a mix of rural and urban areas, including in inner city Washington DC.—
Michael Bernick,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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The library has played witness to the inner city’s woes.—
Louise Dewast,
Christian Science Monitor,
20 June 2025
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Another article from that year documented how Cudahy Park was a popular haunt for 18th Streeters, who poured in from various municipalities to congregate, initiate recruits, and hold meetings.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
27 June 2025
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The Evanston Police Department uses license plate reading technology from Flock Safety, which also manages license plate readers for police departments in Mount Prospect and many other Illinois municipalities.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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Our beautiful neighborhoods will become an asphalt jungle!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2024
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But there’s nothing stopping the surfer from hanging out in the parking lot up the cliff, an asphalt jungle with its own territorial, dog-eat-dog ecosystem.—
Leslie Felperin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 May 2024
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Today, Elba is more known for whimsical seaside towns dotted with cafés, shops and visitors from all over Italy and abroad looking for a respite in various scenic harbors before returning to the buzzing metropolis of Florence.—
Alissa Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Eduard Limonov then—an appropriate nom de plume for a dissident poet arriving in 1974 New York, a metropolis of graffiti and project fires, of blackouts and serial killers.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Manhattan merged with Brooklyn a dozen years before, and here is Greater New York, spreading into new suburbs, boroughs, and garden cities.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Apr. 2025
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Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia.—
Soner Cagaptay,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Feb. 2024
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Garcia was released on Friday from a downtown federal detention center.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2025
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From social media influencers, bloggers, YouTubers, to actual journalists and legal analysts flocking to the Southern District of New York Court in downtown Manhattan.—
Ime Ekpo,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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“Urban sprawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urban%20sprawl. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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