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

Many Americans hold the sincere belief that, for instance, every Californian is a San Francisco liberal and every Texan is a right-wing Dallas suburbanite.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2022

One suggested that “Jeff Bezos wearing a cowboy hat is the final form of every suburbanite who drives an F150.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 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 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