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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)- She drives from her home in the suburbs to her office downtown.
suburbs = residential districts located on the outskirts of a city (near the city, but far from the center of it)
- I want a suburban home with a white picket fence and a big yard.
- a successful suburban shopping center
- Billy's story ended very curiously in a suburb untouched by fire and explosions.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- You suburban gangstas are too soft.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- 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
- In those days there was no security in the suburbs.Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
- It was very quiet out in the suburbs before eight in the morning.Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- 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
suburban = relating to a residential district located on the outskirts of a city (near the city, but far from the center of it)
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)
suburb = a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
suburbs = residential districts located on the outskirts of a city
suburbs = a residential district located on the outskirts of a city