How to Use urban in a Sentence

urban

adjective
  • And then there's the rural part, the urban part, all of this.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Africa also has the fastest urban growth rate in the world.
    New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • One of them is the city’s urban forest of street trees.
    Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 2 May 2020
  • Views of the river and the city abound from this urban retreat.
    Mary Forgione, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • At the other end of the spectrum are large urban farms.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The urban planner isn’t willing to be behind the wheel all the time.
    Washington Post, 11 July 2019
  • And New York City is not the only urban area that has gone big with the pear trees.
    Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 25 Jan. 2023
  • An urban farm that would provide fresh produce for the rest of the city.
    Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2018
  • Be an urban soldier in the war against belts and buttons and stuff.
    Sam Saulsbury, The New Yorker, 30 July 2019
  • There’s more urban farms this year than there were last year.
    Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The ideas that make sense for the urban areas make sense for the rural areas.
    al, 12 July 2020
  • This is a great way to live out those urban cowgirl dreams.
    Taylor Gumm, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
  • But that’s part of the appeal for many looking to catch a break from the crowds and chaos of the urban areas.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 28 June 2024
  • But in high school, at a large urban campus, Bourne started to go down the wrong path.
    Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • An urban farm is in the works for Milwaukee's near west side.
    Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Walczak is well aware of the anger anglers feel over the loss of this unique urban fishery.
    oregonlive, 11 July 2020
  • The patterns that led to urban heat islands are linked to redlining.
    Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The 10 shootings took place across the state, in both urban and rural locales.
    Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 2 July 2018
  • Baseball needs a ton of green space and there’s not a lot of it in modern urban landscapes.
    Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Des Moines is large enough to carry some of the urban politics that come with cities.
    cleveland, 3 Jan. 2020
  • In Texas, night stalkers like bats, owls and raccoons prowl the urban landscape.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Most of these peaks are deep in Colorado, far from the shopping centers and urban bustle of the Front Range.
    Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Places with poor drainage, such as urban areas, are likely to flood.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Some of the more urban members of the family had never even been in a canoe.
    Rosanne Cash, Country Living, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Designed for both men and women from sleek and urban to rugged and outdoorsy.
    Priscilla Mak, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Two years prior, the bust got an axe to its head as urban explorers splashed it with fake blood.
    Kayla Cockrel, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2020
  • In the busy urban setting of Porta Romana, the QC day spa is a tranquil haven of water, heat, and steam.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Contentious urban-planning policies have fuelled the process in the past year.
    The Economist, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The luxe urban trappings of Buenos Aires and the vast, vivid mountain landscapes of her rural hometown serve as conflicting backdrops.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The master plan for the park includes expansive green spaces to combat the urban heat island effect in Gulfton, ponds, a gathering lawn, picnic areas and sports fields.
    Shafaq Patel, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024

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