suburbia
Example Sentences
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Postwar America responded to the instability of the Depression and the war by building a world that promised stability—suburbia.
We were in suburbia, with plenty of open green spaces, woods and creeks.
A long and inevitable clash came when suburbia closed in around the 1,000-acre Inglewood Oil Field, as occurred at oil facilities all over the region.
From Los Angeles Times
Together for 15 years, I had met Joe in suburbia at Bogies, a.k.a.
From Los Angeles Times
Over a dinner of “Mac’s Famous Mac and Cheese,” a gloopy, highlighter-yellow bowl of boxed pasta, they raise their forks in agreement: suburbia will be a breeze.
From Salon
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