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

Mr. Kasky, who had announced “the revolution,” said “playing activist” as a white suburbanite started feeling like “cosplay.”

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022

Pearl, who has lived in Virgil Village for a decade, offered an essay on how a white suburbanite Coloradoan like herself ended up becoming an anti-gentrification activist.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2022

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

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