How to Use burb in a Sentence

burb

noun

• Davis was born in our burbs and lived here for the first four years of her life.
  — Lauren McCutcheon, Philly.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• The Idaho burb was the No. 1 metro area in the most recent ranking.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2021
• While in the Virginia burbs for a meeting, had the chance to stop by Crooked Run Brewing.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
• People coming out of college who don’t want to go back to the burbs.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2019
• In the ‘burbs, these creatures have had a mixed reception.
  — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Loving it in the northern burbs with very little AC use so far!
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
• The library system was set to spend $7.5 million this year to begin work on a new branch to replace the sleepy burb's dumpy one.
  — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Teeth-chattering lows range from the upper teens in colder burbs to the mid-20s downtown.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• This was a sea change from 2001, when Mark Warner won the governorship by focusing on red corners of the state as much as the D.C. ‘burbs.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• Therefore, Mark, who still listens to music on a boombox, would have been living way out in the ’burbs since the financial crash of 2008.
  — Anna Pook, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• Wags used to say that out in the ’burbs, names memorialized the things construction had displaced, so the Oaks at Fox Chase was a place that had no oaks and no foxes.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• The urban suit crowd can carry their bike from the ‘burbs by commuter train, then unfold and ride the last few miles to the office, refolding in a flash for the elevator.
  — Christine Frietchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 May 2020
• Like the downtown punks, The Stranger has tones of disaffection: rejection of the American Dream, of upward mobility and the big job, the fancy car, the house in the ‘burbs.
  — William Goodman, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2017
• Waaay out in the burbs, in a city called Alpharetta, lives a high-end shopping, dining, drinking experience called The Avalon.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2019
• This time not as an exotic live-work bachelor pad — its long-time use — but as a second home for a family of four that uses it to as a getaway from the burbs to the city.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2018
• Knock on wood that one kid's soccer team has insufficient warm bodies for a weekend tournament in a boring burb.
  — The Hive, 26 May 2017
• Now the burbs can try concoctions like a honey bourbon pecan ice cream, a death by chocolate buzzed milkshake with.coffee and chocolate vodka, or a Buzzed Bull margarita with the tequila frozen right in.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 18 July 2019
• Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook, pounding around the burbs with a garbage bag sort of medievally layered over his hoodie, is jogging.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 May 2020
• Olson is 2nd swing suburban Rep (Woodall from Atlanta burbs) to announce retirement this year.
  — NBC News, 26 July 2019
• Through the years, the quaint 'burb has accepted being the butt of jokes, quite literally in the form of Vulcan's derriere, while stubbornly standing up for its independence.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Bratwurst, sauerkraut, pretzels, potato pancakes with apple butter, and plenty of beer are all on the menu for this traditional-style Oktoberfest in the Philly ‘burbs.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• As is well-documented, the pandemic prompted more Americans to fall out of love with cities, with the ‘burbs enjoying the latest of their many revivals, Pew Research Center found.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2023
• But last year’s county executive contest put Trumpism on trial in the northern burbs, with disastrous results for Republicans.
  — Peter Keating, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Apr. 2018
• Birmingham’s ‘burbs offer plentiful attractions suited to any preference.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 5 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024