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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