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Definition
relating to a residential district located on the outskirts of a city (near the city, but far from the center of it)
- 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.1 — Last To See Them Alive (41% in)
- 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.1 — Last To See Them Alive (41% in)
- Nye had next driven to the suburban village of Olathe, where he interviewed Hickock's last employer, the owner of the Bob Sands Body Shop.3 — Answer (10% in)
- The house, like the others on the slanting hillside street, was a conventional suburban ranch house, pleasant and common place.3 — Answer (24% in)
- During the next ten days notches were added in Tullahoma, Tennessee, where they acquired a snappy red Dodge convertible by shooting the owner, a traveling salesman; and in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis, where two more men were slain.4 — The Corner (79% in)
There are no more uses of "suburban" in In Cold Blood.
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