suburb
Example Sentences
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In the Kyiv suburb of Vyshgorod, where a four-day blackout ended just in time for the new year, residents told AFP they wanted the war to end "as soon as possible".
From Barron's
Liew temporarily signed up for government food assistance, kept a tight budget and later started working part time for an artificial-intelligence startup so he could continue to afford rent in a Boston suburb.
He pulls long shifts of guard duty in the city center and still lives with his family in a working class Damascus suburb.
They are heading to the Uptown district or the thriving suburbs, often over concerns about crime and homelessness.
In the 1990s, the neighborhood was further hollowed out, when rising crime spurred an exodus to the suburb of Richmond, which was soon being described as the most Chinese city in North America.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
