Sample Sentences for
urban
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    She studied urban planning.
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    He's a trailblazing professor of education at the University of Illinois who often works at solving the dilemmas of educating the urban poor.  (source)
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    Urban development had never been so easy.†  (source)
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    In the hearth burned a fire as big as an urban riot.†  (source)
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    The companions drove out of the Roman Gate, beneath the enormous blank superstructure which crowns the fine clear arch of that portal and makes it nakedly impressive, and wound between high-walled lanes into which the wealth of blossoming orchards over-drooped and flung a fragrance, until they reached the small superurban piazza, of crooked shape, where the long brown wall of the villa occupied in part by Mr. Osmond formed a principal, or at least a very imposing, object.†  (source)
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    With every step on those cracked sidewalks, I passed a new signifier of urban decay.†  (source)
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    In the weeks before the dinner I went on several urban scouting expeditions.†  (source)
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    Urban Indians were the generation born in the city.†  (source)
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    On this night, we were in Miami doing some urban training.†  (source)
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    Everything needed for daily life, including food, came from urban trash.†  (source)
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    I said I thought that the Reagan administration exhibited "an urban distaste for the concrete."†  (source)
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    Urban environments are way more energy efficient than rural ones.†  (source)
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    I remembered the funeral of His Holiness Pope Urban XV shortly before I left Pacem.†  (source)
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