How to Use suburb in a Sentence

suburb

noun
  • Up to a foot or so of snow from the duo fell in our western suburbs.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Lows by dawn reach the mid-to-upper 50s in our cooler suburbs to the low 60s in the city.
    Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In past years, the event has drawn more than 5,000 people from around the north suburbs, Kako said.
    Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Overnight lows range from the upper 20s in some of our north and west suburbs, to the the low to mid-30s closer to and inside the Beltway.
    Molly Robey, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Or even pay for a ride to the nearby beach from his home in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiya.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Winds of nearly 80 mph were recorded near the Fort Worth suburb of Blue Mound.
    Arkansas Online, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The sweet treats also started in the Black community on the South Side but have spread across the city and suburbs.
    Louisa Chu, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Aside from the drone strike in a Beirut suburb last month, this is the farthest strike from the Israel-Lebanon border and the first direct hit on Sidon since the start of the war.
    NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Amidst record-breaking temperatures and drought, a pond near her house in the Austin suburb had shrunk to the size of a puddle.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Gilbert was ranked as the best suburb to raise a family in Phoenix, according to Niche.com.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The women are from Evanston, Ill., a suburb of Chicago.
    WSJ, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Othman, who lives in a suburb of Chicago, said in an interview with the AP.
    Noreen Nasir, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The couple took their invention on the road, traveling to a trade show in the Chicago suburbs.
    Alex Traub, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Bea Wolf is set in an unnamed suburb, where a group of kids build their own sanctuary from the world of adults, dubbed Treeheart.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Today, a branch of the Rouge River runs through Eisenman’s property in a suburb north of Detroit.
    Hannah Norman, Fortune Well, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Sony insiders say the movie has been doing best in New York City and surrounding suburbs.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The New York writer and icepick-wit Dorothy Parker later expanded that to 72 suburbs.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Stewart grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills.
    Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The busy public hospital in the Parisian suburb of Clichy has one psychiatrist on staff.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the race that’s attracted the most attention is the 57th District in the western Richmond suburbs.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Riverview is a suburb located about 14 miles southeast of Tampa.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Springer died peacefully Thursday at his home in the Chicago suburbs after a brief illness.
    Carmel Dagan, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • How nervy — or maybe just absentminded — to rep the Chiefs in this Philadelphia suburb.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The industrial suburbs of Turin soon gave way to green wheat fields studded with orange poppies.
    Taras Grescoe, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The move comes as more Chicago suburbs take strides to prevent the city's influx of immigrants from overflowing into their towns.
    Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Critical to its abundance, that includes cities and suburbs.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The affluent suburb has long been prized for its quiet seclusion and grand residences.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The events have become so popular that the finals of one in Créteil, a southeastern suburb of Paris, were broadcast on Amazon Prime last summer.
    Catherine Porter James Hill, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • With a telescope, the show’s visitors can also peer across the gray roofs of Paris to Invader’s latest milestone: his 1,500th mosaic in the Olympic host city and its suburbs.
    John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
  • About 25 miles outside Dallas, Allen is one of the booming suburbs north of the city whose populations have exploded in recent years.
    Mary Beth Gahan, New York Times, 9 May 2023

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