suburbanite
Example Sentences
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“I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
She added that as her children grew up and learned who they wanted to be in life, “I learned who I wasn’t — one of those card-playing, country-club suburbanite ladies.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Elisabeth is a new mom — a writer and a reluctant suburbanite, recently transplanted upstate from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn — whose narrative voice is characterized by an unflagging snobbishness and a somewhat joyless, acerbic outlook.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2020
A deceased inventor’s unfinished creation becomes an instant celebrity when a cheery suburbanite brings him home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
And it’s me alone, Ed Kennedy, a less than ordinary suburbanite, who has the chance to end it.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
