suburban

Example Sentences

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“A suburban parent buying a Kia is a digital native,” Toprak said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, the film explores what happens to a family who wake up one day to find that their quaint suburban block has moved somewhere else entirely.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

“We were dirt poor, had big Scottish accents at the time, a family of six siblings, and then coming to very conventional suburban schools,” he said, the memory eliciting a wild-card smile.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Toronto, and the large suburban communities that surround it, are home to one of the world's largest Iranian diaspora communities -- some jokingly refer to Canada's largest city as "Teheranto."

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

For years, the notion was unproven, somewhere in the realm of received wisdom or suburban myth.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove