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suburb - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- metropolis: So what is the UK's largest retailer actually doing at Denton, a fairly ordinary suburb of the metropolis of the northwest?
- city: Situated in a middle class suburb of the city the accommodation will be of a good standard.
- town: Three more large cinemas were built in the suburbs of the town during the 1930's.
Converse of object
- gat: Their desire to escape into the gated suburb of the hyper-real is only one aspect of this deep self-obsession [ 39 ] .
- surround: Thus thousands of homes in the surrounding suburbs were hit.
- neighbor: Find us / / Bus There are bus stops outside and opposite the theater which service all neighboring suburbs.
- expand: Public housing became available and the suburbs slowly expanded.
Adjective modifier
- leafy: Most of the halls are in the leafy suburbs around a mile from the main campus.
- affluent: Richmond An affluent suburb in South West London where Robin Dunstan lived with his parents.
- sprawling: At first blush, this sprawling suburb of 213,000 people, seems an unlikely place to resettle Iraqi refugees.
- outlying: She was taking the early morning train from her home in an outlying suburb to get to her school in Madrid.
- wealthy: He guards a large house in the wealthy suburb of Melrose in Johannesburg.
- southern: Beirut's southern suburbs were hit in the early morning.
Noun used with modifier
- Maputo: President Armando Guebuza administered the first doses of the vaccine in the Maputo suburb of Mavalane as the symbolic launch of the campaign.
- dormitory: An imaginative strategy We must also avoid creating places that are simply dormitory suburbs for London.
- high-density: These are usually based in rural areas, growth points and high-density suburbs and are known in Zimbabwe as ' Village Banks ' .
- hilltop: Trsat, a gentle hilltop suburb, stands guard over Rijeka.
- upmarket: Rosebank is a relatively upmarket suburb of Johannesburg adjoining Sandton, one South Africa's wealthiest suburbs.
- seaside: Melbourne's lively seaside suburb of St Kilda has one of the new breed of deluxe hostels.
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