How to Use urban sprawl in a Sentence

urban sprawl

noun

• It's set in a vast urban sprawl, as was the first movie.
  — John Brandon, Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2017
• And thanks to urban sprawl in the South, the target is growing.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• The heat, the desolate landscape and the urban sprawl took a toll on her.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2022
• For one week a year, urban sprawl gets a chance to shine in all its tacky glory.
  — Paul Newberry, The Seattle Times, 13 Apr. 2019
• Concerns about urban sprawl and green space emerged in Toronto in the early 1970s.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• As a city, Houston has long been famous for its urban sprawl.
  — Michelle Sandlin, Houston Chronicle, 23 June 2019
• Their rooftop bar, with sweeping views of L.A.’s urban sprawl, is adorned in jade palmeral-tiger print.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2021
• But for now, Ms Ding sees herself as a victim of urban sprawl, not the denizen of a seamless city cluster.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• The baddie in this scenario is entirely of our own making: avarice and urban sprawl come to bite us in the ass.
  — Hazlitt, 19 June 2024
• Five times the size of Central Park, and home to a solitary mountain lion, Griffith brings a tinge of wilderness to the urban sprawl.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• But mostly, San Jose is mass urban sprawl, track housing, and strip malls, kind of boring.
  — Alyssa Shelasky, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2022
• Papp: Aquatic turtles can almost always be found near the ponds and lakes of our urban sprawl.
  — Ashleigh Papp, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2022
• And at this point, the secret's out: beyond the urban sprawl of Colorado's Front Range, there's a whole lot more of the state to taste, see, and experience.
  — Billy McEntee, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2021
• Just south of Baghdad, the urban sprawl gives way to glimpses of green, with lush date palm groves bordering the Euphrates River.
  — Alissa J. Rubin Emily Garthwaite, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• There were seven cougar attacks in the 1990s because of urban sprawl into the foothills, Myers said.
  — Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 22 May 2018
• Past the urban sprawl of northern Naseriyah, with its small auto repair shops and vegetable stands, the land empties out.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
• Opponents of the project say it’s an example of urban sprawl.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
• As more estates have been built on greenfield sites outside the center, the rise in urban sprawl has brought problems.
  — Michael Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
• Coastal cities worldwide are squeezed by two opposing forces: urban sprawl and the rising sea.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
• Up here, 1,134 feet above the urban sprawl, there’s nothing but the beauty of nature, the grandeur of the observatory’s arches and domes, and a brisk wind that fills the lungs.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Beignets by Mitch was a chance to poke fun at L.A. food culture and the idiosyncratic people who populate the city’s urban sprawl.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2022
• Decades of urban sprawl have paved over swamp and wetlands and destroyed much of the land’s ability to absorb water.
  — National Geographic, 1 Sep. 2017
• It was created to restrict urban sprawl in an area that does not have water and sewer lines.
  — Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• The story of Virginia’s Seventh District is in large part a story of Richmond’s urban sprawl.
  — Tara Golshan, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018
• Oregon is renowned for statewide policies that constrain urban sprawl.
  — Bart Johnson, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2021
• Today, urban sprawl has covered almost the entire former lakebed, and most of the city's water is pumped from beneath it.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 2 July 2018
• Indigenous groups that reside in the region and already lost parts of their land fear that urban sprawl from the new capital could make things even worse.
  — Edna Tarigan and Victoria Milko, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
• The notion that real estate was a risk-free place to park money helped fuel China’s urban sprawl.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2021
• The council’s managing director, Rawiri Manawatu, says global warming, urban sprawl and the spread of invasive plants and wildlife have wreaked havoc on the country’s ecosystem.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
• The hubris of believing that people can control water with concrete will be increasingly exposed as more of those kinds of projects fail, unable to buffer the knock-on impacts from rapid population growth, urban sprawl and climate change.
  — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024