How do you use Suburb in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like suburbia or community, plus the exact meaning.
Suburb in a sentence
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Suburb meaning
- A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
- The outer part; the environment.
- Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
Using Suburb
- The main meaning on this page is: A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc. | The outer part; the environment. | Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
- Useful related words include: suburbia, suburban area, residential district, residential area.
- In the example corpus, suburb often appears in combinations such as: suburb of, the suburb, in suburb.
Context around Suburb
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Suburb
- In this selection, "suburb" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dulivhadzimu, chicago, build, pounced, edmonton and although stand out and add context to how "suburb" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a booming suburb of about and a chicago suburb. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "suburb" sits close to words such as bets, broadband and caller, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with suburb
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Anger erupted in the Paris suburb after Nahel's death there Tuesday and quickly spread nationwide. (16 words)
Rather than build suburb after suburb, Edmonton and the smaller cities would have to conserve land within the new boundary. (20 words)
The Junction is a highly populated suburb of Newcastle and most of the plane wreckage landed in the shopping area of the suburb. (23 words)
And with regards to office stock, the suburb has the Borrowdale Office Park, Celestial Park and the First Mutual Park, as well as a swish shopping area in the suburb's centre known as Sam Levy's Village. (38 words)
Maxwell Chadiwa (25) of Dulivhadzimu suburb pounced on Ms Muchaziva Gonorashe while she was about to leave her house in Dulivhadzimu suburb for Musina, South Africa, in the early hours and stabbed her with an okapi knife. (37 words)
Bobby Osborne, the singer and mandolin player who joined with his younger brother, Sonny, to lead one of the most groundbreaking bands in the history of bluegrass, died on Tuesday in Gallatin, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Maxwell Chadiwa (25) of Dulivhadzimu suburb pounced on Ms Muchaziva Gonorashe while she was about to leave her house in Dulivhadzimu suburb for Musina, South Africa, in the early hours and stabbed her with an okapi knife.
Rather than build suburb after suburb, Edmonton and the smaller cities would have to conserve land within the new boundary.
And with regards to office stock, the suburb has the Borrowdale Office Park, Celestial Park and the First Mutual Park, as well as a swish shopping area in the suburb's centre known as Sam Levy's Village.
A general view of Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver Compared to the American counterpart, Canadian suburbs are more dense (mostly in major cities), with the Toronto suburb of Mississauga itself being Canada's 6th largest city.
Lavington is the largest suburb of Albury, and the only suburb which has its own postcode (2641, as opposed to 2640 for the balance of Albury).
Lomas de Chapultepec is an example of an affluent suburb, although it is located inside the city and by no means is today a suburb in the strict sense of the word.
The Junction is a highly populated suburb of Newcastle and most of the plane wreckage landed in the shopping area of the suburb.
According to a statement from Ohio State, the researchers did two separate studies involving students attending a summer camp in a Columbus suburb.
A criminal complaint against Rommell was filed in 2019, which stated that he was the brother of the "Mayor of the City of Harvey," a Chicago suburb.
Advocate General Birendra Saraf submitted a communication by Dinesh Kurhade, Tehsildar (Revenue), Mumbai Suburb to Registrar (Original side) of the High Court regarding handing over of advance possession of the 30 acre land in Bandra (East).
A gas station canopy lies on its side after high winds and heavy snow along Lake Shore Boulevard on Dec. 27, 2022, in Lackawanna, New York, a suburb of Buffalo.
Alison Knight, aged 50, was last seen in the Brisbane suburb of Browns Plains on Thursday, December 14, and was believed to be travelling to Griffith via the coast.
Anger erupted in the Paris suburb after Nahel's death there Tuesday and quickly spread nationwide.
Another new route 264 connects Minmi, West Wallsend, Holmesville, Cameron Park, Edgeworth, Glendale, Cardiff, Garden Suburb and Kotara and provides links to Cardiff Station.
An undated photo of Wadea Al-Fayoum, the 6-year-old boy stabbed to death in a Chicago suburb on Oct. 14, 2023.
Anyone who loves cricket — and a lot of people who don’t — could listen to him all day, even if it’s just sitting here at a rickety table on a pavement in a Leeds suburb.
A search was under way for a man believed swept away, while another person was unaccounted for after a landslide hit a house in an inner Auckland suburb, police said.
A timber cutting town turned truck stop on the Bruce Highway, Burpengary, is now a booming suburb of about 16,500 people and a roughly 30-minute drive from Dolphins Oval.
At least nine arrests were made in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, where authorities said rioters had petrol jerry cans and Molotov cocktails.
Bobby Osborne, the singer and mandolin player who joined with his younger brother, Sonny, to lead one of the most groundbreaking bands in the history of bluegrass, died on Tuesday in Gallatin, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville.
Common combinations with suburb
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- suburb of 101×
- the suburb 22×
- in suburb 9×
- suburb in 7×
- paris suburb 6×
- southern suburb 6×
- chicago suburb 5×
- sydney suburb 5×
- eastern suburb 4×
- city suburb 4×