bedroom community

Example Sentences

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Today, Festus functions more as a bedroom community of St. Louis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Now, it’s more of a bedroom community, many of whose residents leave early each morning to spend their day somewhere else.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

Once a bedroom community for the nearby city of Donetsk, Avdiivka has long stood at the front line of war.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

Monday in Farmington, a city of about 50,000 near the Four Corners — where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet — that is a bedroom community for the region’s oil and natural gas industry.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2023

It’s called a bedroom community of Chicago because it’s only thirty miles outside the city.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven