How to Use suburb in a Sentence

suburb

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • By then, though, Shamo was a dark-net totem, the model for aspiring dons in every suburb.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs today.
    — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The tracks were so close to her home that the passage of trains felt like part of the residents’ identity, the rhythm of life in Stepanivka, a Kherson suburb.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2022
  • In a first-of-its-kind deal, the company recently sold the water rights tied to the land to the town of Queen Creek, a suburb of Phoenix, for a $14 million gross profit.
    — Maanvi Singh, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2024
  • For the past year, Moises has lived with his wife and their twelve-year-old daughter in a run-down apartment at a red brick housing complex in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver.
    — The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Her exit, to run for the governor’s office in 2025, leaves an open seat in a sprawling district in north-central Virginia that spans the far suburbs of Richmond and Charlottesville, as well as Washington.
    — Mike Lillis, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024

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