What is "suburban"

Usage examples of "suburban".

Small towns were not the only places to respond to the malling of suburban America.

Conscientious but morose, I went about my studies, strode dismally through the rectilinear suburban streets to the Kleinhammer-Weg, visited Gretchen Scheffler, who told me about Strength through Joy trips to the land of the midnight sun, while I went right on comparing Goethe with Rasputin or, when I had enough of the cyclic and endless alternation of dark and radiant, took refuge in historical studies.

After speeding recklessly for twenty minutes through winding country roads lined with horse farms, commercial areas, and suburban housing tracts, Joel overshot Old Country Road, a main east-west thoroughfare.

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At the dinner table Sylvia got unpreoccupied and tore into suburban communities that enriched themselves with tax-yielding light industry while fortressing themselves with two- and four-acre zoning.

FBI and INS agents jumped into Suburbans and gave chase, followed by local TV crews in their remote broadcast trucks.

As they awaited word from the master bomber, the agents spirited Parker around under a blanket in the back of an embassy Chevy Suburban.

APRON OVER AN OLD SHIRT AND washed-out chinos, James Jesus Angleton was sweeping the aisles of the greenhouse he had recently installed in the back yard of his suburban Arlington house, across the Potomac from the District of Columbia and the Pickle Factory on the Reflecting Pool.

Say Metro approves an ugly shopping center for your quiet suburban neighborhood.

Whitney, who liked to drive her Suburban in the snow just to show she could, sometimes rescuing addled Baltimoreans who had driven off the road in panic.

I could see the double-tiered roadway of the Route 495 Beltway, and a forest of radio-TV antennas off among the checkerboard of neat little suburban houses that covered the once-green and rolling hills.

The Brummagem sing-song inlaid with suburban gentility scraped my nerves.

Britt and Kelly far beyond the wooded suburban byroads and onto the new needle-straight highway that stretches across the middle flatlands toward the moors and Wiltshire County.

I think of the absurd crashes of neurasthenic housewives returning from their VD clinics, hitting parked cars in suburban high streets.

I had done my best to keep it home-like, hoping for a restoration of the relative simplicity of the suburban villa this palace had once been, but the architects were infected with the new notions of Constantinian grandeur, and only in this room, whose walls were hung with British weavings, and where striped British rugs covered the cold mosaic floor, did I feel truly warm enough to keep at bay the periodic attacks of shortened breath that plagued me in the winter.