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noun

suburb

CEFR B2

a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

In a sentence

Six example sentences with suburb, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every house in the suburb shared one of four floor plans, and the developer painted each street a different color.

    Architecture

  • The airport bus crawls through one quiet suburb after another before the towers of downtown finally appear ahead.

    Travel

  • Cheap petrol and new motorways pulled young families into the suburb, hollowing out the shops nearer the center.

    Economics

  • Levittown, the first mass-produced suburb, rose on Long Island potato fields in 1947 at a pace of thirty houses a day.

    History

  • Both parties now court the suburb, where a few thousand swing voters decided the last three state elections.

    Politics

  • The film opens in a sunlit suburb where every lawn is trimmed, and the unease builds from how perfect it all looks.

    Movies

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