How to Use urban in a Sentence

urban

adjective

• And then there's the rural part, the urban part, all of this.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2021
• Africa also has the fastest urban growth rate in the world.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• One of them is the city’s urban forest of street trees.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 2 May 2020
• Views of the river and the city abound from this urban retreat.
  — Mary Forgione, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• At the other end of the spectrum are large urban farms.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• The urban planner isn’t willing to be behind the wheel all the time.
  — Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• And New York City is not the only urban area that has gone big with the pear trees.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 25 Jan. 2023
• An urban farm that would provide fresh produce for the rest of the city.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2018
• Be an urban soldier in the war against belts and buttons and stuff.
  — Sam Saulsbury, The New Yorker, 30 July 2019
• There’s more urban farms this year than there were last year.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 9 Mar. 2020
• The ideas that make sense for the urban areas make sense for the rural areas.
  — al, 12 July 2020
• This is a great way to live out those urban cowgirl dreams.
  — Taylor Gumm, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
• But that’s part of the appeal for many looking to catch a break from the crowds and chaos of the urban areas.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 28 June 2024
• But in high school, at a large urban campus, Bourne started to go down the wrong path.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• An urban farm is in the works for Milwaukee's near west side.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2019
• Walczak is well aware of the anger anglers feel over the loss of this unique urban fishery.
  — oregonlive, 11 July 2020
• The patterns that led to urban heat islands are linked to redlining.
  — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• The 10 shootings took place across the state, in both urban and rural locales.
  — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 2 July 2018
• Baseball needs a ton of green space and there’s not a lot of it in modern urban landscapes.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2018
• Des Moines is large enough to carry some of the urban politics that come with cities.
  — cleveland, 3 Jan. 2020
• In Texas, night stalkers like bats, owls and raccoons prowl the urban landscape.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2022
• Most of these peaks are deep in Colorado, far from the shopping centers and urban bustle of the Front Range.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2024
• Places with poor drainage, such as urban areas, are likely to flood.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• Some of the more urban members of the family had never even been in a canoe.
  — Rosanne Cash, Country Living, 25 Aug. 2017
• Designed for both men and women from sleek and urban to rugged and outdoorsy.
  — Priscilla Mak, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• Two years prior, the bust got an axe to its head as urban explorers splashed it with fake blood.
  — Kayla Cockrel, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2020
• In the busy urban setting of Porta Romana, the QC day spa is a tranquil haven of water, heat, and steam.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
• Contentious urban-planning policies have fuelled the process in the past year.
  — The Economist, 8 Sep. 2017
• Again and again, Kornacki has shown us rural areas bathed in red on his map and urban or close-in suburbs that are firmly blue.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
• The nature walk was a poignant moment in the heir to the British throne's ongoing environmental campaign, bringing attention to the work of conservation rangers who patrol the urban national park.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024