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relating to a residential district located on the outskirts of a city (near the city, but far from the center of it)

suburbs = residential districts located on the outskirts of a city (near the city, but far from the center of it)

suburban = relating to a residential district located on the outskirts of a city (near the city, but far from the center of it)

a successful suburban shopping center
Billy's story ended very curiously in a suburb untouched by fire and explosions.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

suburb = a residential district located on the outskirts of a city (near the city, but far from the center of it)

suburban = relating to a residential district located on the outskirts of a city (near the city, but far from the center of it)

Late in the afternoon, when the fire began to subside, he decided to go to his parental house, in the suburb of Nagatsuka.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

suburb = a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

In those days there was no security in the suburbs.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

suburbs = residential districts located on the outskirts of a city

It was very quiet out in the suburbs before eight in the morning.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted

suburbs = a residential district located on the outskirts of a city

She died in a suburb of Sydney.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
They were looking for an apartment, and after a long search, my father found one in a London suburb.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
Are all these Your faithful friends o' the suburbs?
William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
We came to the suburbs of London about three o'clock.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
There was a safe, suburban feeling.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
The ogres are in the suburbs.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
27 MONIQUE PEERED at the Washington skyline through the Suburban's tinted windows.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
XXXVI There was a garden out in the suburbs; a small, leafy corner, with a few green tables under the orange trees.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
One can still see in the suburbs of Rome more modernistic apartments than almost anywhere else in the world.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
He was a scientist, I was a dabbler in the shabbier suburbs of the arts.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
The towns are close-spaced now—Chateau-Thierry and Meaux and then an unending chain of suburbs—and everything is tangled and fuzzy.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
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.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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