Bedroom community culture

Usage examples of suburbia.

Stilted verse, deathlessly chiseled, eulogized the departees -- vanity plates in suburbia for the lifeless.

The woman stood beside her, the picture of upscale suburbia in a knit ensemble of hunter and rust, accessorized in brass, her deep red hair cut in a smooth shoulder-length bob.

I imagine I thought it was going to be like one of those sitcom depictions of suburbia, with all the identical front doors opening at precisely the same time, and identically dressed men marching down the street together, clutching identical briefcases, brollies and newspapers.

The forced suburbia of these women's lives, the clubby limits of the 1950s in some dead American pasturage, here was a dislocation with certain seductive attributes and balances.

There were quite a few Michelles in Western embassies around the world, diplomats who, back in Washington, London, or Paris, had been ordinary, anonymous bureaucrats occupying cubbyhole houses in suburbia, taking the metro to work.

Howard had leaned forward and spoken gravely for the next ten minutes, explaining to the group his considered plan of action, how his team, organised by his head biologist, Michael Lehmann, and Fender, would search every square inch of the forest, discreetly but painstakingly, until they were sure the Black rat was not alive and well and living in the wooded suburbia of Epping Forest.

Although widely franchised and primarily located in suburbia, Shakey's did not truly qualify as "fast food" because most of its business was eat in, as opposed to carry out, attempting to replicate urban pizzerias, albeit with player pianos and pinball machines for the customers' entertainment.

There, through a tunnel of old trees, it rolled on curving roads flanked by large colonial houses, with here and there a French provincial, or what passed for French provincial in suburbia, and slowed at the blunted tip of a quiet dead-end drive.

The greyness of city homes gave way to the leafdom of suburbia, the road signs informing him that Kent was the destination.

Suburbia started about fifteen miles from the airport, mainly ribbon development on either side of the Beltway--very neat wooden and brick houses, many still under construction.

As we drew closer to the city, we passed through layers of shanty towns, the older and more organized verging on a kind of bedraggled suburbia, others looking more like out-and-out refugee camps.

As we drew closer to the city, we passed through layers of shanty towns, the older and more organised verging on a kind of bedraggled suburbia, others looking more like out-and-out refugee camps.

THE SECURITY patrol was systematically scouring a section of suburbia, a convoy of armoured trucks infiltrating a pedestrianised shopping precinct, weaving its way between piles of debris, powdering broken glass beneath its wheels.

She'd gone to the South Mountain for a while, an area so upcountry and backwoods that it makes the North Mountain seem like suburbia.

A Radical out and out, she learnt to speak with horror of Suburbia.