How to Use urbanity in a Sentence

urbanity

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  • Hong Kong is a strip of urbanity snaking around the coast.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The chef says he was lured to the Watermark by the promise of creative control and the opportunity to bring some urbanity to the suburbs.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Some people do tell her that Greenville is too small, too isolated from big-city attractions — a minor island of urbanity in a sea of farms and fields.
    — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Houses and businesses bright and shining, a halo of urbanity blazing against the night sky.
    — Paolo Bacigalupi, Wired News, 27 May 2015
  • The finale starts with a motoric toccata that could have come from Bartók, then moves on to imitate an Irish jig, before adding a bit of boogie-woogie; the suave opening of the work draws from the luxe urbanity of Poulenc.
    — Russell Platt, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2017
  • There are few activities more democratic and astonishing than looking up into a night sky, even when ensconced in the murky depths of urbanity.
    — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2021
  • It is well known that Kissinger admired Metternich for his urbanity and virtuosity as a statesman.
    — A. Wess Mitchell, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • America had raised a generation of young people who, on average, valued the things urbanity had to offer.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 15 June 2020
  • Waldron was the epitome of style and urbanity in jazz, from his pendulous brown cigarette dangling from his fingers to his signature coifed natural Black hair that grew into a stately white.
    — Shannon J. Effinger, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Ikebukuro — a bustling hub of Japanese urbanity and pop culture in central Tokyo — has become the unofficial center of gachapon culture, with the machines spilling out of seemingly every storefront.
    — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Some 100 stores now carry her trademark blend of architectural body-conscious urbanity.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • That careful dance between subdued and remote, classic Maine and urbanity, is also winding its way into neighboring coastal villages, and settling in among the area’s working fishing fleets, general stores, and no-frills lobster pounds.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Manet’s buddy Charles Baudelaire, the disputatious journalist, poet and art critic, described artists’ emerging role as being painters of modern life, and urbanity seeped into many private nooks and crannies.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This Thursday, elected officials from across the Bay Area are likely to approve a 30-year, $1.4 trillion plan that aims to turn our region into nothing less than an international model of equitable urbanity.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2021
  • According to Santiago X, the mounds are intended to activate awareness and connection to the waterways and to a sustainable urbanity.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In April 1978 my family traded Boston urbanity for the relatively untamed South.
    — Michael Kerrigan, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2017
  • But in the distance, as in Mayakoba, construction whirrs, anticipating the next batch of newcomers ready to trade pandemic mundanity and general urbanity for gated bliss.
    — Sheila Marikar, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Handsome but approachable, Mr. Segal brought an natural, modern urbanity to the screen, representing a change from the studio-polished personas of an older generation of Hollywood actors.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The ambient, Brubekian theme music (composed by a musician with the gloriously appropriate name of Champ Champagne), conspicuously placed objèts and half-empty wine wall implied a sort of refinement and urbanity that was more indicated than real.
    — Courtney Lichterman, Robb Report, 3 June 2021
  • Hawley reframes: science and urbanity vs. intuition, emotion and nostalgia.
    — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In the surrounding countryside are Palladio’s villas, where the architect combined opulent living quarters and working farm buildings into coherent complexes that married nature with culture, rusticity and urbanity.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019

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