How to Use urbanization in a Sentence

urbanization

noun

• In the past 10 months, the influx has led to a process of rapid urbanization on the hills of southern Bangladesh.
  — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 17 June 2018
• The boars are a sad metaphor for urbanization gone wrong.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2021
• Over the years, countless chinampas have fallen out of use in many parts of the city due to urbanization.
  — Megan Zhang, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2021
• Drilling, mining and urbanization as well as disease and fires have wiped out sagebrush lands across the West.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2019
• The rapid growth in rural tourism isn't just the result of the pandemic or rapid urbanization in China.
  — Ben Westcott and Shanshan Wang, CNN, 10 May 2021
• In this case, the trout almost certainly can’t reach the ocean — even though some may try — because of the trappings of urbanization.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• There is still quite a long pathway to reach peak urbanization in China.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2020
• Many worry about the wildlife squeezed out by urbanization, but Lisa Bates resolved to do something about it.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2021
• The rest of the increase was due to climate change and additional heat due to urbanization.
  — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2021
• The idea of constructing new cities to solve urbanization challenges is not new.
  — Astrid R.n. Haas, Quartz Africa, 1 Nov. 2019
• Climate change and rapid urbanization have made dengue outbreaks bigger in the past decades.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 3 July 2020
• Because of urbanization and the threats against its natural habitat, the maned wolf was once on the verge of extinction.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 8 July 2022
• But wildlife seemed to cope better with urbanization in cities that were cool or lush — homes to plenty of healthy, green plant life — than in those that were warmer or more barren.
  — Emily Anthes, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• The mid-1800s brought large-scale urbanization to the area, culminating in the York Railway Station.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
• Over the years, there’s been extensive urbanization and development at the base of the mountain, which could change what lives on the mountain.
  — Quartz Africa, 20 Feb. 2021
• Places that don’t have near the urbanization over the years have been seeing upward trends in temperatures.
  — Kaila White, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2020
• As part of a government urbanization in her hometown Copiapó, Rojas had been given a small piece of land on which to build a house.
  — Gabrielle Smith, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
• And the re-urbanization of downtown Denver has only added to demand.
  — Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 2 Aug. 2019
• Amid talk of falling car ownership and rapid urbanization, automakers were on the lookout for the next big thing.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 19 Dec. 2019
• Shorebirds, long threatened by the draining of coastal wetlands and urbanization, saw declines of more than 37%.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• In a weird way, the pandemic ties together the book’s themes of urbanization and consumption.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 14 Oct. 2020
• As property prices climbed with this urbanization, so did Mr. Xu’s wealth.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• If one aim of urbanization is to defeat the forces of chaos waiting right outside the city walls, these stylistic features are essential.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2021
• The issue has split voters in areas such as Weld County north of Denver, which has seen rapid urbanization in recent years, along with a sharp rise in shale drilling.
  — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
• Hatfield says that urbanization and a shifting zeitgeist have led to a decline in hunting.
  — Laura Reiley, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2019
• The value of urban retail sales was 8X greater than rural, showing the huge effect continued urbanization could have in the decades to come.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• China is undergoing the largest process of urbanization the world has ever seen.
  — Darran Anderson, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2020
• The film explores the collision of nature and urbanization.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
• As the climate, weather patterns and urbanization change the landscape, plants are likely to produce more pollen for longer, causing stronger allergy symptoms.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2024
• The impact of urbanization on coyote populations varied.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024