rural

Example Sentences

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Small and rural colleges, including many that survived the Great Depression, are especially vulnerable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Because they are more expensive to serve due to their remote locations, rural customers have often been overlooked by logistics and telecommunications companies, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The rural community of the book is a West Virginia mining hamlet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

“In the Fields of Fatherless Children,” the publisher writes: “examines the long shadow cast by the Vietnam War. Not just on the battlefield, but on the women, children, and rural communities that were left behind.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

As in many rural white families, Butler grew up in close proximity to black people.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson