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  • Suburban Ohio neighborhoods never have streets that go in straight lines, so instead he takes the more direct route, through the woods, and makes it there in ten.†   (source)
  • The people living on North Third Street were mostly Mexicans and Indians who had moved into the neighborhood after the whites left for the suburbs and subdivided the big old houses into apartments.†   (source)
  • He'd grown up, I learned, in an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., where he'd excelled academically and had been an elite athlete.†   (source)
  • Louise called Sylvia, who had recently married a firefighter, Harvey Flammer, and now lived in a nearby suburb with her husband.†   (source)
  • In the Leep driveway sat a dented old Suburban and a shiny new Camaro convertible.†   (source)
  • TIM SHEPARD AND company were already waiting when we arrived at the vacant lot, along with a gang from Brumly, one of the suburbs.†   (source)
  • Francois's life of affluence in the Parisian suburbs, on the other hand, had left him itching for adventure.†   (source)
  • The other is very close by, a radio astronomy observatory located in the suburbs of Beijing, which is run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University's Joint Center for Astrophysics.†   (source)
  • In the first real news of events outside of New York, we heard that a massive fire had razed the South Boston suburbs, and Philly, Baltimore, and Hartford were nearly as bad.†   (source)
  • Decades later she would remember how isolated she felt in the slow suburban crawl of midcentury Middletown.†   (source)
  • They had been walking in near silence for a little under an hour when the suburban houses gave way to more extensive fields where cattle grazed.†   (source)
  • In a time when supposedly peaceful middle-class suburbs like ours are breeding children capable of such things, you begin to realize that talk is never just talk.†   (source)
  • When she moved from public housing to a three-bedroom home in a suburban area in the Northwood section of town, she was trying to create more distance between her and the city's imploding center.†   (source)
  • D'you think Hollywood is a suburb of Birmingham?†   (source)
  • I have an address in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • Older generations of pretties lived out in the suburbs, hidden by the hills, in rows of big houses separated by strips of private garden for their littlies to play in.†   (source)
  • My grandfather usually just complains about black people moving into the old neighborhood, and then my sister gets upset at him, and then my grandfather tells her that she doesn't know what she's talking about because she lives in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • Privet Drive looked exactly as a respectable suburban street would be expected to look inthe early hours of Saturday morning.†   (source)
  • The ogres are in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • All this as they dodged and wove their way through suburban gardens.†   (source)
  • My eyes jumped from the digital clock—my return flight was in a few hours—to the mailbox numbers on the tree-lined suburban street.†   (source)
  • Unlike most cities, Savannah did not have vast outlying suburbs with thousands of untroubled suburbanites to dilute its murder rate.†   (source)
  • Mae thought of the petition she'd signed that day, to demand more job opportunities for immigrants living in the suburbs of Paris.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Ericson, whose name was Elizabeth, was from a suburb of Chicago.†   (source)
  • The three stared at the girls from the middle of the quiet, suburban road.†   (source)
  • She could have probably figured out how to take a bus to Boston, but reaching a home in the suburbs was more complicated than that.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Reagan was in Sweden to observe a drug-abuse program in a high school in a Stockholm suburb; I guess she's one of those many American adults of a certain advanced age who believe that the root of all evil lies in the area of young people's self-abuse.†   (source)
  • Later, in suburban Blankenese, the Polizei pull the Ugandan and me off a train and ask to see our travel documents.†   (source)
  • I wanted, in that moment, for everything to go back to the way it had been before we came here; before I ever found that letter from Miss Peregrine, back when I was just a sort-of-normal messed-up rich kid in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • Then, like me, the world begins to change: roads narrow and some become gravel, suburban sprawl has been replaced with farmland, downtown streets teem with people, looking in windows as they pass Sweeney's bakery and Palka's meat shop.†   (source)
  • It's big in the suburbs, once they start getting age spots they figure they've got to beat the competition.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the smoke from the burning department store faded in the distance, but Leo didn't relax until the suburbs of Chicago gave way to snowy fields, and the sun began to set.†   (source)
  • We get a lot of dead deer in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • The departmental car, made available at short notice through the kindness of the minister, had broken down in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • These are groups of families, usually in cities or suburbs, who put together a big order once or twice a month.†   (source)
  • Suburban kids have swimming pools and tennis courts and carpet in the halls.†   (source)
  • Margo asked as I turned on the lights and, driving forward now, began to navigate the suburban labyrinth back toward the interstate.†   (source)
  • And it seemed that lately a disproportionate number of those chosen were from New Beijing and the surrounding suburbs.†   (source)
  • He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air onto the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb.†   (source)
  • Maybe not, I thought, circling behind her as I followed my mother into the next gallery; her clothes were a little too bland and suburban; she was probably a tourist.†   (source)
  • They were looking for an apartment, and after a long search, my father found one in a London suburb.†   (source)
  • Later, Central American women flocked to places with the greatest demand: the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Houston, and Los Angeles, where the number of private domestic workers doubled in the 1980s.†   (source)
  • As I get off-peninsula—moving away from the buildings and businesses of downtown Portland and onto the more suburban mainland—the houses get smaller and farther apart, set back on weedy, patchy yards.†   (source)
  • It's a rented house right along the Mississippi River, a house that screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town.†   (source)
  • Books were discards from other suburban schools where the well-off students turned up.†   (source)
  • Thousand of shacks and iean-tos covered the hillsides and gullies along the three-klick ride to the suburbs.†   (source)
  • As we drove through the darkness, heading northwest out of town where the suburbs of West Palm Beach fade into sprawling country properties, I thought through our decision to bring home a dog.†   (source)
  • We were digging along the side of a hill on the outskirts of the suburbs.†   (source)
  • In the parking lot I recognized Mike's Suburban and Tyler's Sentra.†   (source)
  • For Ashima, migrating to the suburbs feels more drastic, more distressing than the move from Calcutta to Cambridge had been.†   (source)
  • We were shocked by the racial division of the city and surrounding county, where most of the black kids attended understaffed and underfunded city schools while whites attended sparkling clean suburban schools with fantastic facilities.†   (source)
  • I showed a slide of the new suburban home we'd just purchased.†   (source)
  • They've taken a wrong turn, suburban types with a BMW maybe, and they're in a part of town that is wilderness as far as they're concerned.†   (source)
  • My dad's sister, who was married with a daughter in college and a son in high school, had driven down to the river in our small suburb of San Francisco and jumped in.†   (source)
  • It was all so suburban, so new.†   (source)
  • J. W. Highleyman left work one day, caught a suburban train, and vanished, the Tribune said, "as completely as though swallowed by the earth."†   (source)
  • Thirty miles out of town is the suburb of Eagle River where the dogs are put in trucks and taken eleven miles to Settler's Ray where the true race starts.†   (source)
  • At last we crossed a broad canal and I knew we had reached the fashionable suburb of Aerdenhout.†   (source)
  • He has a brand-new position in the security division of the gold-mining industry, near the northern suburbs, where supposedly we are soon to be living in high style.†   (source)
  • Sophie lived on the outskirts of a sprawling suburb and had almost twice as far to school as Joanna.†   (source)
  • Deborah had tried welfare for three months but hated it, so now she was working days at a suburban Toys "R" Us that took more than an hour and three buses to get to, then nights at a hamburger place called Gino's behind her apartment.†   (source)
  • 'Don't think on it, Louis,' she said later, when we were comfortably situated in a small suburban hotel.†   (source)
  • Ashbury isn't really a good place to walk, it's just shops and suburbs, there isn't even a decent park.†   (source)
  • Mrs. White continued to live alone in their suburban Chamberlain bungalow.†   (source)
  • So that's how they began, with the two of them driving out to the Memphis suburbs, and asking a man behind a government computer for proof of Michael's existence.†   (source)
  • Did the Party really think that physical laws could be overturned by the whim of some apparatchik with a heavy desk and a dacha in the Moscow suburbs?†   (source)
  • That year I also met a new student, Chong Xiongjun, a tall boy with a pimply face, from one of the outer suburbs of Beijing.†   (source)
  • The landscape of the suburban night has much weird beauty if you just look.†   (source)
  • The del Valles motored out into the suburbs as they always did on a clear day.†   (source)
  • We worked for almost three months with SEAL Team 5 out in the Baghdad suburbs.†   (source)
  • Crime was rising, and newer suburbs farther from town were roomier and more ethnically homogenous.†   (source)
  • One other highlight: Candy gave birth to our first son, Murray Nedlands Carson (Nedlands was the suburb where we lived), on September 12,1983.†   (source)
  • The peaceful suburb with its beautiful tradition of love was, however, not the most propitious for unrequited love when it became a luxury neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Her circle of acquaintances was not large, nor did it contain any members of the sheltered middle class from the suburbs.†   (source)
  • I didn't know where I was, but it was somewhere in the wealthy suburbs of New York.†   (source)
  • In Washington and its fancy suburbs, even in Millsburg, that was OK, but Lark Creek was the backwash of fashion.†   (source)
  • The pool tables go north to the rich suburbs—Livingston, Ridgewood, Bedminster.†   (source)
  • I could see for miles, noting where the dark countryside blended with the sparkle of the suburbs and gradually became the grid of Portland's lights.†   (source)
  • A small cluster of older ladies clutching pocketbooks, their hair carefully coiffed, probably on a shopping expedition from some province or suburb, smile and coo when he tinkles the opening of "Moonlight Serenade."†   (source)
  • Paul took the house in, so much like Cincinnati, so different from his own quiet childhood, its suburban ease and comfort.†   (source)
  • My daughter Bee, from my marriage to Tweedy Browner, was just starting seventh grade in a Washington suburb and was having trouble readjusting to life in the States after two years in South Korea.†   (source)
  • In the eastern suburbs a woman out jogging in the hills behind her home had been killed by a mountain lion.†   (source)
  • Beyond the ochre haze, city turned to suburbs.†   (source)
  • A large game center crammed with young people; wild electronic sounds; a group of college students spilling out from a bar; teenage girls with brilliant bleached hair, healthy legs thrusting out from micromini skirts; dark-suited men racing across diagonal crosswalks for the last trains to the suburbs.†   (source)
  • Countless other suburban communities, in every part of the country, could have been used to illustrate the same points.†   (source)
  • Seven thousand miles away, in a suburb of Virginia Beach, his ten-year-old son, Nathan, was worried about him.†   (source)
  • The guests began to arrive, many with tales of how they'd gotten lost on the way; the suburbs were dark and intricate like mazes with their courts and cul-de-sacs.†   (source)
  • "Man, this ain't even Boonieville," Sergeant Simpson said, "This is the suburbs of Boonieville."†   (source)
  • Externally he lived a nearly featureless life among suburban neighbors, and very few of them knew that when he climbed into his mud-colored car he was headed for work in a hot zone, although the license plate on the car was a vanity plate that said LASSA.†   (source)
  • Anne Gilhuly, a recently retired English teacher at Greenwich High School in a wealthy suburb in Connecticut, with no particular interest in Africa or maternal health, read that article.†   (source)
  • She lived in a gihugic house in a quiet suburban neighborhood.†   (source)
  • The distance between Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City, and Holcomb, which might be called a suburb of Garden City, is approximately four hundred miles.†   (source)
  • She was in black pants and a lime green tank top that showed off her honeymoon tan, her hair pulled back in a headband: she looked the picture of suburban entertaining, as if at any moment she might light a tiki torch and spray some Cheez Whiz onto crackers.†   (source)
  • Providing today's music are disc jockeys from WPGC, a hip-hop station from just across the D.C. line in Maryland's black suburbs.†   (source)
  • The suburb of Cottonville bordered a creek, a starveling, wet-weather stream which offered the sole suggestion of sewerage.†   (source)
  • Sarah was an old school chum of my mother's, and Weston is a suburb of Boston, a few miles west of the city.†   (source)
  • There weren't wolves in New Jersey, not in her ordinary suburban neighborhood, not in the twenty-first century.†   (source)
  • The interior looked more like a back alley from one of the worst parts of New York City than a suburban home.†   (source)
  • Obviously, a young man with his advantages could have been doing good works as a doctor while commuting between Boston and a pleasant suburb—not between a room in what I imagined must be a grubby church rectory and the wasteland of central Haiti.†   (source)
  • A recent set of data covering the sale of nearly 100,000 houses in suburban Chicago shows that more than 3,000 of those houses were owned by the agents themselves.†   (source)
  • After the war they could all work for Nately's father and bring up their children in the same suburb.†   (source)
  • He was a baldish, average-looking man from Mountain Brook, Alabama, an affluent Birmingham suburb where teenagers often get their driver's license and their first BMW at the same time, and lived in an apartment in his father's mansion, on an estate in the woods outside Union.†   (source)
  • After they left the niece's suburb, the son drove them to the address his mother had given him, which turned out to be a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • It was at the far end, in the suburbs of the Jewish part.†   (source)
  • Back home in Detroit, Mahtob would start kindergarten classes at a Montessori school in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • The suburban neighborhood was quiet.†   (source)
  • Shaker Heights was a posh, upper-end suburb in the height of midsummer bloom.†   (source)
  • Culbert was a hodgepodge of suburban-style boxes thrown up before the city got serious about zoning.†   (source)
  • But on August 22, 1962, terrorists opened fire on his motorcade in the French suburb of Petit Clamart.†   (source)
  • Silicon Valley is just a plain strip of low-storied offices and suburbs between San Francisco and San Jose.†   (source)
  • Then he noticed that there was an upper platform, stairs leading to it, and an arrow with the words FAIR FIELD AND NORTHEASTERN SUBURBS painted on it.†   (source)
  • He was drinking all the way past Mojave, and into the northern suburbs of Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • The little suburban houses of Hamilton sped past us, simple and clean.†   (source)
  • Your basic suburban lawyer.†   (source)
  • After settling in her tube, ignoring the four o'clocks who were heading to the suburban havens, she took out her pocket directory.†   (source)
  • I watched as a black Suburban pulled out of a spot a few feet down from my brothers.†   (source)
  • 27 MONIQUE PEERED at the Washington skyline through the Suburban's tinted windows.†   (source)
  • After the Mortensons moved to the suburbs, Greg's looming presence on the Ramsey High School football team as a defensive lineman broke open a path of, if not friendship, then camaraderie with other students.†   (source)
  • Labov's theory has been elaborated in the research of Stanford University linguist Penelope Eckert, who studied language changes originating among high-school students in a predominantly white suburb of Detroit.†   (source)
  • You bought a lovely house for me in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • Around the southern shore of Klamath Lake we pass through some suburban-type development, and then leave the lake to the west, toward the coast.†   (source)
  • He was not sure where Nanterre was, only that it was a suburb of Paris.†   (source)
  • I met that morning in a safe flat in a white suburb with various members of the local and foreign press, and I once again called the stay-at-home "a tremendous success."†   (source)
  • He was living in the suburbs with his wife and their two children.†   (source)
  • He then kicked the bike into gear, hit the gas, and the two of us flew down the quiet, suburban street that had been my home for fourteen years.†   (source)
  • Perched on rolling hills east of San Diego, La Mesa was the quintessential American suburb with paved roads, a municipal sewer system, good schools, and plenty of parks and recreational areas.†   (source)
  • It's hard to believe that Lou came out of a suburban home on Long Island and went to college in upstate New York.†   (source)
  • From above, Abbottabad reminded me of flying over the suburbs in the United States.†   (source)
  • Once, having left his house after an adolescent raid upon his father's patience, Alessandro had bested all his previous records and spent seven hours next to a simple round pool in a little park in what was then a new suburban quarter to the south, and if it is true that nothing is ever forgotten, he had the images and coordinates of a hundred million lazy trajectories marked in cascading water and hesitant droplets revolving at the peak of sunlit wavering arcs.†   (source)
  • It was a modest home in the suburbs of an industrial town.†   (source)
  • RICK MOODY is a writer of short stories and novels, many of which explore disintegrating family bonds in suburban America.†   (source)
  • ON JULY 27, 1997, police in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler fanned out on foot and bicycles, in patrol cars and paddy wagons.†   (source)
  • For a minute she thought she could learn to love him, could be happy with his promise of a big house in the suburbs, a maid to clean and cook, summer camp for Miri.†   (source)
  • The towns are close-spaced now—Chateau-Thierry and Meaux and then an unending chain of suburbs—and everything is tangled and fuzzy.†   (source)
  • He drove under the Ventura Freeway, escaping into the suburban hive of the San Fernando Valley.†   (source)
  • He arranged them carefully next to my father's chaise like trinkets for barter, all the while recounting to himself in a small voice the catalogue of his suburban treasure.†   (source)
  • It was the voice of a suburban mother in training.†   (source)
  • I loaded up my old Chevy Suburban and headed back to the house.†   (source)
  • They chatted quietly about the schools in the suburbs, how coats were marked down Columbus Day, whether the United States was doing the right thing in Korea.†   (source)
  • Since her childhood, she's seen Easley transform from a quiet country town to a busy suburb of Greenville.†   (source)
  • If you go out into the subdivisions and suburbs of America, where all of the yuppies live, you'll see the restaurants are packed with people.†   (source)
  • She began to notice how stodgy their friends were, and although she had assumed, till now, that her ultimate goal in life was a husband and four children and a comfortable house with a yard, all at once she began biting off the words "domestic" and "suburban" with her eyebrows raised and the corners of her mouth turned down.†   (source)
  • Yes, I remember now, it is in one of the suburbs of the town.†   (source)
  • Though scarcely a mile from the center of Brussels, it was a decidedly rural suburb ringed by small farms.†   (source)
  • Being the suburban pioneer that I was, I saw all the forests from the East to the West cleancut and balded like so many marines' shaved heads.†   (source)
  • Somehow I knew I'd end up in the suburbs working for Renault and you'd be in the Orient picking exotic women off the trees.†   (source)
  • A suburb is simply a form of homage to a city's vitality, but it rarely receives even the slightest consideration for that homage.†   (source)
  • Then she started the car and swung it round upon the quay, and drove out of the dockyard, and on through minor roads and suburbs till she found the highway to Geelong.†   (source)
  • He spent another week trying to sell encyclopedias to suburban housewives, but he was not a man that housewives liked.†   (source)
  • The author is an actual woman, married—as the title coyly indicates—to a plumber living in a suburb of Worcester, Mass.†   (source)
  • Someplace not too far from here there's a quiet suburban guy whose wife thinks he's in the selling business, and he didn't come home from his last trip—he'll do that sometimes, nothing to worry her, always comes back, not the type to take up with another woman.†   (source)
  • But more unnerving than anything else was the ruined suburb near the rapids.†   (source)
  • The great, grimy railway stations had gone-banished to the suburbs.†   (source)
  • Randy felt relieved when the suburbs of Orlando were behind them and, with traffic thin at this hour, he was holding to a steady seventy.†   (source)
  • There had been a time when, as a dashing young workman, he had attracted the admiring glances of merchants' and priests' daughters in Moscow's industrial suburbs.†   (source)
  • hardly noticing, they passed into an elegant suburban section, where mansions were set back from the road by lawns with biirdbaths on them.†   (source)
  • But there are thousands of people in Africa who could be lifted bodily out of their suburb and put into a town the other side of the world and hardly notice the difference.†   (source)
  • They think I should live in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • It was a Suburban-load of my friends, either too nervous or too intimidated to arrive on their own.†   (source)
  • Finally, Langdon's finger ran out of churches and trailed off into the suburbs of Rome.†   (source)
  • With a glance at the mayor of Omaha, he graciously offered to accept Omaha as a suburb.†   (source)
  • The entry hall was soaring and grand, not the suburban model home I had stepped into just days ago.†   (source)
  • It is a winter in my childhood, on a snow packed hill in our suburban neighborhood.†   (source)
  • The German artillery began shelling Warsaw again, first the suburbs, then the city centre too.†   (source)
  • I managed to wedge Jess in between Mike and me in the front seat of the Suburban.†   (source)
  • The caller was a woman from the nearby suburb of San Marino.†   (source)
  • The aircraft flew low over the Washington suburbs while approaching Andrews Air Force Base.†   (source)
  • Finally, we floated into the suburbs, and the ballooner spotted a big field off in the distance.†   (source)
  • It's a franchise: there are Soul Scrolls in every city center, in every suburb, or so they say.†   (source)
  • That all the buildings were like suburban northeast high schools built in the 1960s.†   (source)
  • The car they sent for Wang Miao took him to a large compound in the suburbs.†   (source)
  • Keeping local farms in business keeps the countryside from being overrun by cities and suburbs.†   (source)
  • Crime in Baltimore and its suburbs had spiraled out of control, particularly in the city proper.†   (source)
  • Burbclaves and other companies had booths hidden among the suburban "streets" within the quadrants.†   (source)
  • The Victorian district was Savannah's first streetcar suburb.†   (source)
  • There was little evidence of a war in this suburban street.†   (source)
  • One by one they stepped off the bus and gazed at the shimmering suburban wonderland around them.†   (source)
  • She was a prototypical suburban mom, minus the SUV.†   (source)
  • We pulled up to a quiet, suburban-looking street.†   (source)
  • They bought a split-level house on Willet Drive in suburban Annandale.†   (source)
  • At Old Court Middle School in the Baltimore suburbs they've started the Ben Carson Club.†   (source)
  • Why are these suburban-Atlanta kids acting out the ethos of the frontier?†   (source)
  • I was now running along a tree-lined suburban street.†   (source)
  • Or would they live in a suburb, surrounded by a dozen houses that looked exactly the same?†   (source)
  • TEENAGE REBELLION IS FOR SUBURBAN SCHOOLCHILDREN.†   (source)
  • The seclusion room was the size of the average suburban bathroom.†   (source)
  • I had never spent a summer in the suburbs before.†   (source)
  • We had left the downtown section and seemed to be headed west toward the suburb of Scheveningen.†   (source)
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