How to Use subdivision in a Sentence

subdivision

noun
  • The Wurzers' home was part of a subdivision once known as Bay Ridge.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Our Home of the Week is in a 12-house cul-de-sac subdivision abutting Cameron Woods.
    John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The first houses in the Skyline Hills subdivision opened in 1959.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Answer: The subdivision's home sites all looked the same.
    USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
  • Much of the housing built in the state since the 1970s has been in sprawling subdivisions on the far outskirts of metro areas.
    Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The home is located in a subdivision on the southeast edge of town.
    Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Their new home is in a subdivision named The Hamptons, carved from corn fields, with wide streets and sidewalks.
    Trip Gabriel Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The home where the victims were found was in a new subdivision with new homes, overlooking Enoch.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Police said Sims then took the car to a Lawrenceville subdivision and set it on fire with her body still inside.
    Rosana Hughes, ajc, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Most of the subdivision does not have sidewalks, including the area where the women were hit.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Homes in the Stone Lakes subdivision are sought after for amenities that include a lake and trails.
    Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 27 June 2023
  • All of the townhouses in the subdivision were sold prior to the bankruptcy.
    Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • That began to change when white flight reached the capital city of Jackson in the 1960s and Rankin’s fields gave way to subdivisions and strip malls.
    Nate Rosenfield Rory Doyle For The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The couple used to see marsh rabbits on the road into their subdivision.
    Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Across the river in the town of Fruitland, in western Idaho, new housing subdivisions stretch out for miles from the main streets.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • That site is near the one approved Monday but further from the subdivision.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Woods once filled with the calls of raccoon hunts have been replaced by a quiet subdivision.
    James Pollard, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The Loftin residence sits near the bottom of a hill that crests off the subdivision’s main thoroughfare.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The Devon of Burr Ridge program will repair all streets in that subdivision.
    Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The rental home is located about five miles west of Nathrop in a thickly forested subdivision.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Traffic, noise, lights and air pollution are among the concerns raised by the residents of a 1,200-home subdivision just north of the airport.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Entire subdivisions were spared as flames leapfrogged across the island.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Luis Cruz is accused of opening fire at the entrance of a subdivision off Dickens Road in Lilburn, killin ...
    Rosana Hughes, ajc, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The five-bedroom, two-story house is in the Steeplechase subdivision, about a mile from Sugarloaf Mills mall.
    Chris Joyner, ajc, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The subdivision will include houses with two, three and four bedrooms.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Friends of Ramon Rodriguez dropped off ice, bottled water and hot coffee at the entrance to his subdivision, where 10 of the 50 homes were flooded and the road looked like a lake.
    Meg Kinnard, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The tornado touched down in the Southport subdivision area just before 11 a.m.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Security at the subdivision told them the homeowners had been out of town.
    Rosana Hughes, ajc, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Pulte has made similar trail and park donations to park and forest preserve districts in the past, as was the case with the park and trail lands for the Naper Commons subdivision on the city’s north side.
    Giles Bruce, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Four residents from Palomino Lane, a street within the adjacent Grande Prairie subdivision, signed up to speak at the meeting against the project.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023

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