bedroom community

Example Sentences

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Still, there are many in Festus who prefer to maintain their city as a semirural bedroom community.

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

As Microsoft and Nintendo took off in the 1990s, turning Redmond from a bedroom community into a job center, city leaders funneled Redmond’s newcomers into the city center.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2023

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

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