Suburbia is an English word with synonyms like suburb or community. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Suburbia in a sentence
Suburbia meaning
The suburbs as a whole and all that characterizes or pertains to them; (sometimes derogatory) the suburbs as encapsulated or represented by the typical characteristics or qualities of the people living there, especially complacency, conformity, conservativeness, dullness, etc.
Synonyms of Suburbia
Using Suburbia
- The main meaning on this page is: The suburbs as a whole and all that characterizes or pertains to them; (sometimes derogatory) the suburbs as encapsulated or represented by the typical characteristics or qualities of the people living there, especially complacency, conformity, conservativeness, dullness, etc.
- Useful related words include: suburb, suburban area, residential district, residential area.
- In the example corpus, suburbia often appears in combinations such as: of suburbia, in suburbia, suburbia and.
Context around Suburbia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 12 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Suburbia
- In this selection, "suburbia" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, industrial, wars, intermediate, intimacy and works stand out and add context to how "suburbia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include away in suburbia along with and back to suburbia and embrace. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "suburbia" sits close to words such as aaf, aalen and abrogated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with suburbia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
President Trump is attacking Democrats on a new front: suburbia. (10 words)
It could have easily been another text, not set in British suburbia. (12 words)
I enjoyed the first two episodes, even though I didnt love the star wars suburbia. (15 words)
They were a post-World War II generation of no-nonsense, tough, dedicated men who staffed the athletic departments of older, established high schools in the Valley, and the new ones opening to meet the influx of families moving to suburbia. (41 words)
In April last year, the Mercury reported that more than 400 people were on a waitlist for one of Zanko's distinctive slice-of-suburbia works - woodcarved reliefs of the area's rapidly diminishing stock of postwar brick and fibro houses. (41 words)
Now based in Santa Monica, California, the brothers grew up in the city of Davis, and living in suburbia for the first 18 years of their lives couldn't help influencing their perception of reality and musical output much later. (40 words)
Manifesto-inspired dialogue aside (like when Marcus, who accepts going to the school because he reasons “what’s the alternative, suburbia? (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
It is here, amid a sprawling industrial suburbia of manufacturing plants and not far from a Hershey's Chocolate plant, that some portion of hundreds of thousands of migrants stop on their way to America.
The 68-year-old British playwright, novelist and filmmaker’s works include The Buddha Of Suburbia, Intimacy and Mother.
There’s often a hint of snobbishness about it, too, that jars slightly with me as a child of suburbia.
They were a post-World War II generation of no-nonsense, tough, dedicated men who staffed the athletic departments of older, established high schools in the Valley, and the new ones opening to meet the influx of families moving to suburbia.
I enjoyed the first two episodes, even though I didnt love the star wars suburbia.
In April last year, the Mercury reported that more than 400 people were on a waitlist for one of Zanko's distinctive slice-of-suburbia works - woodcarved reliefs of the area's rapidly diminishing stock of postwar brick and fibro houses.
The Buddha of Suburbia was adapted for the stage by Kureishi and director Emma Rice earlier this year.
There's a great view from the village boundary, with Havering-atte-Bower set over 100m above sea level, as the hillside tumbles down towards Romford, intermediate suburbia and the Thames.
But it's hilarious that the hero who fought on Battle-World and helped save universes more than once sees suburbia as the worst place to end up.
President Trump is attacking Democrats on a new front: suburbia.
Send your lust for green lawns back to suburbia, and embrace the tawny hues of true Vineyard grass, tough and earthy.
That's because big family vehicles are booming; they're best-sellers on dealer lots because they've effectively replaced minivans as standard-issue hardware for life in suburbia.
Trump certainly knows he's losing these groups — he has recently posted an abundance of racist, fear-mongering tweets claiming that all hell will break loose in suburbia if Biden is elected president.
In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a growing belief that air pollution had decreased visibility at some sites, and the creep of suburbia and population into the hills and valleys made these watchers seem less necessary.
It could have easily been another text, not set in British suburbia.
Manifesto-inspired dialogue aside (like when Marcus, who accepts going to the school because he reasons “what’s the alternative, suburbia?
Michael Kupperman grew up in Connecticut, hidden away in suburbia along with a family secret; Kupperman’s professor father, Joel Kupperman, had been a child star, one of the most popular and recognized child stars of his generation.
Neon signs advertising the new medium have sprung from the skyline, and T.V. antennas are becoming a part of suburbia.
Now based in Santa Monica, California, the brothers grew up in the city of Davis, and living in suburbia for the first 18 years of their lives couldn't help influencing their perception of reality and musical output much later.
Really high speeds in dense areas like big cities like New York, as well as wider coverage in suburbia and world Americans.
Common combinations with suburbia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of suburbia 9×
- in suburbia 8×
- suburbia and 5×
- to suburbia 3×