How to Use exurb in a Sentence

exurb

noun

• The exurbs, the regions far beyond a city center, are back.
  — WSJ, 10 July 2019
• The two Voyagers are now out in the exurbs of the solar system, far beyond the orbit of even the dwarf planet Pluto.
  — Joel Achenbach, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• Albert emerged from the exurbs of Los Angeles and embraced the city in all its guises.
  — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
• The exurbs, the engine of the American housing market, are back.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2019
• The party’s core constituents are white and Christian, and live in exurbs, small towns, and rural areas.
  — Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2022
• Now those kinds of urban designs are arriving in the exurbs.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Northam also swept Richmond as well as its suburbs and exurbs.
  — James A. Barnes, CNN, 14 June 2017
• This may all seem obvious; space in dense superstar cities costs more than land in spread-out exurbs.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 24 June 2019
• Their neon signs glow across cities, suburbs, exurbs, and rural small towns alike, even when many other kinds of retail stores are struggling to stay afloat in the same places.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
• He was raised in a housing project in the underprivileged exurb of Trappes, 20 miles west of Paris, one of seven children.
  — Vivienne Walt, Time, 8 June 2021
• Reporters from all over the world streamed into Clackamas, Ore., Harding’s home town and a rural exurb of Portland.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2018
• The comic-book-loving Black rapper from the largely white exurb of Rosemount brought along a full band, horn section, stage props, giddy dancers and an own-the-moment zeal to rule the room that night.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
• There’s the woman who insists on her right to raise tigers, with possibly dire consequences for the neighbors in her New Jersey exurb.
  — Jeremy McCarter, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• In addition, younger homebuyers want to live closer to urban areas, not in the far-out exurbs, where builder costs are far lower.
  — Diana Olick, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
• Retiree Lee Houk of Pewaukee, a booming exurb west of Milwaukee, was just as dismissive of the tax claims.
  — Thomas Beaumont, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• Livingston County is a changing exurb, with strong housing and income growth.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2020
• About 250 miles away, in the eastern exurbs of Denver, the volunteer shortage has become so noticeable that local fire chiefs talk about it in life-or-death terms.
  — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
• The question for the general election is whether Abrams can parlay her support to hold down likely losses in North Georgia and capture some of the Atlanta exurbs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
• Russell lives in Brunswick, the last southwestern exurb before greater Cleveland gives way to farmland.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 15 Aug. 2024
• The drop has coincided with the construction of more housing, primarily in the state’s suburbs and exurbs.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Downtown Wilmington resembles a random exurb, except for the clump of drab buildings blistered with bank logos and I-95 cleaving the place in two.
  — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2020
• Major arteries run from big city to big city, then smaller branches cover those cities and extend to nearby suburbs and exurbs. Hubs in those smaller cities branch out to reach more towns.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Apr. 2020
• The surge has created vibrant, even affluent suburbs and exurbs, such as Milton.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2019
• Greater numbers of white and Christian voters lean Republican, as well as those living in exurbs and rural areas.
  — Silvia Solis, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
• Builders in far-flung exurbs are encountering stiffer resistance from young buyers even as prices ratchet higher for land closer to cities.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
• While Portland still makes up about half of the region’s multifamily construction, Kaylor said some of the city’s suburbs and exurbs are now poised for rapid expansion.
  — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2020
• Abrams performed similarly well in many of Atlanta’s largely white suburbs and exurbs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
• Meanwhile, an exurb tends to have a higher population density than a rural area.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• Monroe County is an exurb, a community in the far reaches of the suburbs, where many residents put up with a two-hour commute to New York in exchange for plentiful living space.
  — Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2020
• The country is divided into blue cities and suburbs and red exurbs and rural areas, reflecting a huge cultural split over values—a split that is replicated in many countries other than the United States.
  — Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 18 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024