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
• Rising medical care costs have been linked to hospital consolidation in recent years, while transportation costs are largely related to the effects of urban sprawl, according to the Dallas Morning News.
  — Mike Winters, CNBC, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024