SUBURB in a Sentence

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51 example sentences for SUBURB, such as:

1. The town is a residential suburb.
2. The school is situated in the suburbs.
3. We can go to the arboretum in the southern suburb.
4. Open spaces give the suburbs an edge over the city.
5. He lives in the suburb of Beijing and works in the city.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUBURB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suburb
 n.  outskirts; usually residential area or community outlying a city
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  He entered Paris by the suburb of St. Marceau, and fancied that he was in the dirtiest village of Westphalia.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
2  Wherever it is placed on the borders of a capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a city.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
3  Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that is to say, towards deserted regions.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
4  Athos walked in the direction indicated, and reached the suburb situated at the opposite extremity of the city from that by which he and his friends had entered it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
5  By ten o'clock in the morning of the second of September, only the rear guard remained in the Dorogomilov suburb, where they had ample room.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
6  He took his seat beside the aide-de-camp on duty and drove into the suburb.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
7  He did not drive into the town, but put up at an inn in the Dorogomilov suburb.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
8  But as the artist lived in a remote suburb, it was decided to take the carriage.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 9
9  An hour later Anna, with Golenishtchev by her side and Vronsky on the front seat of the carriage, facing them, drove up to a new ugly house in the remote suburb.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 9
10  The fairy-book suburb of Forest Hills on Long Island.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  They owned a flourishing grocery business in a thickly populated suburb of Memphis, and a white man named Barrett had one on the opposite corner.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
12  He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
13  Mr. Jonas Oldacre is a well known resident of that suburb, where he has carried on his business as a builder for many years.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
14  With no breakfast, he rushed to the suburb he had been told about.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Two First Cross-examination
15  As he spoke, he looked out the window and saw how, just then, they were getting closer to the suburb where the court offices were.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The town is a residential suburb.
2  He lives in the suburb of Beijing and works in the city.
3  Margaret resides with her invalid mother in a London suburb.
4  The circus is planning to pull out of the suburb park tomorrow morning.
5  We can go to the arboretum in the southern suburb.
6  About 500 people showed up to the historic State Theatre in Falls Church, a suburb of Washington, D.C. to witness Clinton's smiling re-emergence on the political scene, showering her with applause when she made even the slightest allusion to running for office again.
7  In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a windowless canteen for a ceremony to begin.
8  Psy's song "Gangnam Style," which mocks the consumerism of a rich Seoul suburb, and hit horse-riding-style dance went viral on video-sharing website YouTube.
9  The accident occurred towards the end of the morning rush hour in a suburb of Osaka, and the train was crowded with nearly 600 people on board.
10  This train would stop twice more in the suburbs before rolling southeast toward Munich.
11  Open spaces give the suburbs an edge over the city.
12  As soon as we can afford it, we'll move out to the suburbs.
13  The spread of the suburbs has triggered a population explosion among America's deer.
14  The school is situated in the suburbs.
15  About two thousand families will be relocated in the outer suburbs.