All 10 Uses
suburban
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The Lovely Bones
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- That all the buildings were like suburban northeast high schools built in the 1960s.†
Chpt 2suburban = relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- As he scoured his body in the hot water of his suburban bathroom—one with the identical layout to the one Lindsey, Buckley, and I shared—his movements were slow, not anxious.†
Chpt 4
- In those days there was no security in the suburbs.
Chpt 4 *suburbs = residential districts located on the outskirts of a city
- Missing dead girls were not a common occurrence in the suburbs.†
Chpt 5suburbs = residential areas located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- By the time I was in double digits most of the grave rubbings had been put down in the basement for storage, the spots on our suburban walls replaced with bright graphic prints meant to stimulate children.†
Chpt 7suburban = relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- When the alarm had gone off to tell him to shut the blinds and then the next alarm, which told him to shut off most of the lights because the suburbs were asleep after that, Mr. Harvey would go down into the basement, where there were no cracks that light could peek through and people could point to, to say he was strange.†
Chpt 11suburbs = residential areas located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- She imagined trees split down the middle and houses on fire and dogs cowering in basements throughout the suburbs.†
Chpt 17
- They stood a few feet inside the doorway, shivering and staring out into the pre-suburban forest that surrounded them.†
Chpt 17suburban = relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- Over the years, when I grew tired of watching, I often sat in the back of the trains that went in and out of Suburban Station in Philadelphia.†
Chpt 17
- Susie Salmon, wildlife photographer, had captured a woman staring out across her misty suburban lawn.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(suburban) relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)