suburbanite

Example Sentences

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“I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2023

She added that as her children grew up and learned who they wanted to be in life, “I learned who I wasn’t — one of those card-playing, country-club suburbanite ladies.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021

Elisabeth is a new mom — a writer and a reluctant suburbanite, recently transplanted upstate from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn — whose narrative voice is characterized by an unflagging snobbishness and a somewhat joyless, acerbic outlook.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2020

And indeed “Dave” unquestionably centers the journey of its title suburbanite, for whom inner-city GaTa represents a source of hard-won wisdom about race and privilege.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2020

And it’s me alone, Ed Kennedy, a less than ordinary suburbanite, who has the chance to end it.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak