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Get to know Urbs better with 4 real example sentences, the meaning.

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Urbs in a sentence

Urbs | Urb

Urbs meaning

A walled city in Ancient Rome.

Using Urbs

  • The main meaning on this page is: A walled city in Ancient Rome.
  • In the example corpus, urbs often appears in combinations such as: the urbs.

Context around Urbs

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Urbs

  • In this selection, "urbs" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, access and roma stand out and add context to how "urbs" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include fled the urbs in the and the ex urbs are fuelling. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "urbs" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with urbs

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Montrealers fleeing the city for cheap housing in the ex-urbs are fuelling sprawl. (14 words)

You don't have permission to access /urbs/how-a-denver-coffee-shop-exploded-the-gentrification-debate/ on this server. (20 words)

The "Urbs Roma" Symphony (1856) in some ways represents a backward step, being less deftly orchestrated, and "thick and heavy" in its effect. (23 words)

Raitt told some good stories about his early adventures on Greenfield Ranch and, in his way, is probably fairly typical of the city people who fled the urbs in the late 1960s, early 1970s in that he came from a well-to-do family. (44 words)

The "Urbs Roma" Symphony (1856) in some ways represents a backward step, being less deftly orchestrated, and "thick and heavy" in its effect. (23 words)

You don't have permission to access /urbs/how-a-denver-coffee-shop-exploded-the-gentrification-debate/ on this server. (20 words)

Example sentences (4)

Montrealers fleeing the city for cheap housing in the ex-urbs are fuelling sprawl.

Raitt told some good stories about his early adventures on Greenfield Ranch and, in his way, is probably fairly typical of the city people who fled the urbs in the late 1960s, early 1970s in that he came from a well-to-do family.

You don't have permission to access /urbs/how-a-denver-coffee-shop-exploded-the-gentrification-debate/ on this server.

The "Urbs Roma" Symphony (1856) in some ways represents a backward step, being less deftly orchestrated, and "thick and heavy" in its effect.

Common combinations with urbs

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "urbs" in a sentence?
An example: "Montrealers fleeing the city for cheap housing in the ex-urbs are fuelling sprawl." This page contains 4 example sentences with the word "urbs" from authentic English texts.
What does "urbs" mean?
Urbs means: A walled city in Ancient Rome.
How many example sentences with "urbs" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 4 example sentences with "urbs", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.