How to Use rural in a Sentence

rural

adjective

• She lives in a rural area.
• About three-quarters of the state’s districts are rural.
  — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2023
• The cold will also raise a risk of icing on rural roads in and out of the Sierra Nevada foothills.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
• The district was once more of a battleground, but rural parts of the district have shifted right in the last decade.
  — Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• In his home state, in the small towns and rural areas that define much of Texas, he was seen as an outsider.
  — Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• The Post was permitted to attend the event at New Life, a modest church on the rural outskirts of Greenville.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2024
• Like many in the rural area, the men planned to work and send money back to support their families.
  — Sonia Perez D., Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Bracy said the project would be more advantageous if the project was in a more rural area of the county.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
• Growing up in a town in the rural Nevada town of Spring Creek, the 16-year-old had learned how to drive cattle on horseback at the age of 9.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
• The fire occurred in a rural, non-hydrated area of the county.
  — Allana Haynes, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
• The land is in a rural area, with many people owning livestock.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
• But poor rural communities bore the brunt of the damage.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• There’s also the fact that people live closer to forests in some states that boast large rural areas.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 14 June 2023
• For people in small towns and rural areas, the choices are fewer.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• Garner, 51, grew up in Charleston, while Paisley, 50, was born and raised in rural Glen Dale.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
• My dad grew up in the rural areas of Baltimore and had to take precaution of what’s around him.
  — Larry Stansbury, Essence, 16 Aug. 2024
• Living in rural Texas, Jone said she's seen wildlife such as hawks and snakes before – but never like this.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The rural scenery is pretty, but not so majestic as to feel distant.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• Much of it is rural with some industrial towns, such as Portsmouth along the Ohio River.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
• That number drops to 63% of Black voters in rural areas.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2024
• Though Birkhead keeps his daughter out of the spotlight, the pair lives in rural Kentucky and make an annual trip to the horse race.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023
• Jimmy Ray Rodgers took his girlfriend for a ride along route 47 in rural Missouri.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 July 2024
• At 11 weeks old, someone left him and his nine littermates on the side of a rural road in Oklahoma.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2024
• Water had to be brought in via trucks because there are no hydrants in the rural area, officials said.
  — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023
• But Trump was able to turn out infrequent voters there in 2020, and did well in much of the rest of the state, which is rural and more conservative.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
• From rural Preston, Idaho, comes Napoleon Dynamite, a new kind of hero with moon boots and some sweet moves.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
• Turkeys in cities face fewer foes than their brethren in rural areas.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2024
• The treatment shortage is even worse in lesser cities and rural areas.
  — WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
• But a week of visiting its rural restaurants showed me how the state's culinary boom began: with its farms.
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024
• In rural England, an even more bizarre theory circulated—eels were born from the hair of horses’ tails that floated into water bodies.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024