bedroom community
Example Sentences
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The area serves as a bedroom community for employment centers in Fort Myers and Naples, so its main thoroughfares are choked with outbound traffic in the morning and inbound traffic in the afternoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
