rural

Example Sentences

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The rural community of the book is a West Virginia mining hamlet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The long, digressive rural idyll “NN” follows a sophisticated city dweller’s return to the village of his childhood country house.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

A two-thirds cut would have also created headaches for Amazon, especially in rural areas where it relies on the Postal Service the most.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Prof Dimitrios Buhalis, from Bournemouth University, says remote working is "reshaping" rural and coastal economies in ways that "go far beyond where people choose to live".

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

I drove through farmland and wooded areas of rural Georgia, rehearsing what I would say when I met this man.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson