How to Use suburbia in a Sentence

suburbia

noun

• The film is an interesting critique of suburbia.
• The far West Side of Cleveland is a slice of suburbia in the city.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
• The third-of-an acre lot looked more like the Tallgrass Prairie than a yard in suburbia.
  — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
• These days, coyotes live on the edge of, and even in, suburbia.
  — Toby Walrath, Outdoor Life, 25 Jan. 2021
• At the same time, the sprawl of agriculture is matched by a sprawl of suburbia.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
• That helped lead to the spread of suburbia, as in other cities across the country.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2023
• Unlike the big plots of suburbia, space is, well, a bit tight.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024
• Can 600 acres in the middle of suburbia be a thought center?
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
• But just like Stranger Things, the movie is set in 1980s suburbia and draws equally from King and Spielberg.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2017
• And Balfe is there again, in the movie’s best scene—no cars, no crowds, simply a sunny day in suburbia.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
• As a result, Subarus were just a bit too avant-garde to cut it in suburbia.
  — Car and Driver, 28 Sep. 2022
• The book: Growing up in suburbia in 1994 isn’t easy for Tabitha Denton.
  — Judith Utz, Teen Vogue, 20 June 2017
• In that sense, Kramer is the Zagat of tasteful suburbia.
  — Luke Winkie, Vox, 14 June 2019
• The settings were very far from suburbia, and the heroines were not at all like Cushman.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
• In suburbia, the plight of Franzen’s housewives is of a piece with their entrapment.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
• The bumblebees have not made the move to suburbia, so they are seldom seen.
  — Dick Crum, Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2017
• The snakes clearly thrive in the swamps of the Everglades, but is suburbia suitable?
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2023
• Blowe said in his video that success doesn’t mean a house in suburbia with a white picket fence.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2022
• Along the way, the show does an admirable job of critiquing suburbia, teen culture and the status quo, but with lots of heart, too.
  — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 17 May 2021
• The movie’s setting is the tract-house suburbia of the San Fernando Valley.
  — Sheri Linden, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2018
• The other America, rooted more in the past, thrives in the smaller towns and cities, as well as large swaths of suburbia.
  — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2017
• Places like fire-prone suburbia saw a surge in home buyer demand over the last two years, causing prices to jump.
  — Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• The utopian sheen of American suburbia is a mere lick of paint over the dark forces of fear, greed, and violence.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2020
• Joe says Shirley Jackson wrote that suburbia is where people go to come apart.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2021
• The episode begins with a cheery Saturday in suburbia, with the sound of children's laughter and ice cream trucks.
  — John Blake, CNN, 4 Apr. 2020
• The face that launched the sport from bootleggers’ back roads into the living rooms of modern suburbia.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 July 2017
• Her look from the 52nd annual Grammy Awards is a long way from suburbia.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 11 June 2023
• In this case, the setting is the tract-house suburbia of certain stretches of the San Fernando Valley.
  — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Though the Rancho Street compound is in the heart of suburbia, the current owner has long kept alpacas and horses.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 16 June 2024
• For non-white suburbanites, their arrival in suburbia was the culmination of years of civil rights struggle and a racial achievement not to be taken lightly.
  — Becky Nicolaides / Made By History, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024