urban
Example Sentences
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Lying on his side on a dark summer night earlier this year, Sir David Attenborough is watching a hedgehog snuffling around an urban garden.
From BBC
The motivating idea was to put the building “in dialogue with Harlem”—its history, its culture, and above all its vibrant urban life.
The think tank added that more urban and more deprived areas were set to see much bigger increases overall.
From BBC
Two-thirds of Americans have a family member with the disease, a proportion that is similar across rural, urban and suburban dwellers, and across Black, Latino and white respondents.
From Los Angeles Times
An urban conflagration, which jumps from house to house through explosions of millions of embers, “is more intense than a normal wildland-urban interface fire,” Rohde said.
From Los Angeles Times
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