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
  • All the city lights in the Birmingham suburbs, though, dull the moon glow here.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024
  • In past years, the event has drawn more than 5,000 people from around the north suburbs, Kako said.
    Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Filming kicked off on April 8 in Paris and suburbs, and will wrap on Jun 20.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Grace Dell Nichols was born in a Chicago suburb in 1932.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The Fairbanks suburb is hundreds of miles south of the other three North Poles.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Winds of nearly 80 mph were recorded near the Fort Worth suburb of Blue Mound.
    Arkansas Online, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Late last month, in an Arizona suburb, someone jumped out of a car and stabbed Frosty the Snowman to death.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Till’s body to prove he, and not someone else, was buried at his gravesite in the Chicago suburb of Alsip.
    Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • That is like encountering the city of Cleveland and a few of its suburbs.
    The Editors, National Review, 3 May 2024
  • Clark has served on the city council of Forest Park, a Cincinnati suburb, since 2017.
    Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In the Boston suburb of my beginnings, those two words were clutch.
    Faran Krentcil, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • As the night wears on and generational tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
  • DeWitt is a suburb of Lansing and is about a 115-mile drive northwest of Detroit.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Reffitt lived with his wife and children in Wylie, Texas, a Dallas suburb.
    Michael Kunzelman, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The Milwaukee County suburb is in the midst of a mini building boom.
    Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 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
  • The shopping mall is located in Bloomington, a suburb of the Twin Cities.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In recent days, drone sightings, which had been concentrated in northern New Jersey, have been reported in the southern part of state, in the Philadelphia suburbs and in towns near the coast.
    Alyce McFadden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Lolo This three-bedroom ranch home sits in a quiet Bitterroot Valley suburb 15 minutes from Missoula.
    The Week Staff, theweek, 3 Dec. 2024

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