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Example sentences for "suburbs"

Lexicographically close words:
subulate; suburb; suburban; suburbanites; suburbes; subvention; subventions; subversion; subversive; subvert
  1. These matters being arranged, and his own term having expired, Caesar withdrew, according to custom, to the suburbs beyond the walls to collect troops and prepare for his departure.

  2. The danger was unmistakable; and Caesar, who was still in the suburbs making his preparations, invited Cicero to avoid it, by accompanying him as second in command into Gaul.

  3. Richard related those particulars which are already known to the reader; and he did not forget to reproach Morcar for having refused to accept his share of the purse at the tavern in the suburbs of the above-mentioned town.

  4. The news quickly spread to the suburbs that the soldiers were about to attack the people.

  5. In those suburbs from which the workmen had not been able to break into the inner town, the insurrection threatened to assume the form of an attack on the employers.

  6. The inner circle of Vienna was at this time surrounded with walls, outside of which were the large suburbs in which the workmen chiefly lived.

  7. The lumber manufactories in Detroit and its suburbs are eleven in number.

  8. Yet there they were, quite a street of them, all in beautiful order, as if they were the residences of wealthy citizens in the suburbs of a busy town.

  9. We had to stop to get money for our food as we went along, so it took us five weeks to reach the suburbs of Paris.

  10. It was understood that while I was down in the mine Mattia and Capi were to go off into the suburbs and give "musical and dramatic performances" and thereby increase our fortune.

  11. In Germany many of the great breweries have summer gardens in the suburbs of the cities.

  12. The opening of the Salvator brewery in the suburbs of Munich, for its brief season of a month in the spring, assumes for the inhabitants the importance of a long anticipated holiday.

  13. The name that appears on the original survey of York and its suburbs as first occupant of the park-lot westward of Mr. McGill's, is that of Mr. George Playter.

  14. They will tell you they are going to take a prisoner, or soldier, as the case may be, out to the suburbs to give him a chance to escape.

  15. The mint, which is situated in the suburbs of the city, is turning out fifty thousand dollars in silver per day.

  16. There are many cotton mills around the suburbs that are well worth the time it takes to visit them.

  17. However, half a league out of the town they came upon a portion of the garrison, and repulsed them so successfully that they entered one of the suburbs with them.

  18. Monsieur Martin's house was in the suburbs of Nantes.

  19. The peasants are much more polite in Auvergne than in the suburbs of Paris.

  20. Monsieur de Montfort wished that our marriage should take place at a country house of his in the suburbs of Bordeaux.

  21. Bixiou and Madame Desroches visited Matifat frequently during the year 1826, sometimes on rue du Cherche-Midi, sometimes in the suburbs of Paris.

  22. In 1840 he did some work on an unfinished house in the suburbs of the Madeleine, purchased by the Thuilliers.

  23. He lived quietly in the suburbs of Vatan, in touch with Fario.

  24. She was separated from her husband, to his relief, and for several years previous to 1821 lived in the suburbs of Strasbourg.

  25. The financier drew upon himself the hatred of Cerizet for having deceived him in a deal about the purchase of lands and houses situated in the suburbs of the Madeleine, an affair in which Jerome Thuillier was afterwards concerned.

  26. A few minutes more and the pair were cantering through the streets in the direction of the western suburbs of the town.

  27. Belem itself is about two miles from Lisbon, but contiguous to it, or, as the suburbs of London are to the city.

  28. Our battalion remained in the suburbs of Fuentes a few days, and the enemy who had desisted from their attempt to relieve Almeida, retired; we followed them and took up our quarters at Gallegos.

  29. The Arte dei Fabbri, for instance, extended over all the suburbs of Florence.

  30. Rouen is so admirably supplied with tramways and steamboats, that a week might well be spent in exploring its suburbs by any one who has the time and inclination.

  31. The suburbs of Cherbourg, toward the tip of the peninsula, form one of the most unspoiled and little travelled corners of modern France.

  32. The remains of the old fortress-château of the middle ages, now moss-grown, still exist in the suburbs of Alleume.

  33. This foundation is the oldest and richest of the kind in Austria; it owns much of the land upon which the north-western suburbs of Vienna stand.

  34. Yaroslav, on the left bank of the Volga, at the mouth of the navigable Kostroma, with suburbs on the opposite side of the Volga.

  35. The suburbs and the town itself were now on fire.

  36. The city of Ghent is known as the flower city of Europe, there being a hundred nursery gardens and half as many horticultural establishments in the suburbs of this one city.

  37. I had no idea that any city contained so many beautiful homes and flower gardens until I took a ride into the suburbs of this city.

  38. We have known a case in which a pack of wolves (driven by hunger, of course) actually entered the suburbs of the city of Van, and sent in a crafty old she-wolf as decoy.

  39. The extent of the city is very great, and the population consists of Spaniards, mulattoes and mestizoes; the native Indians inhabit the suburbs and villages adjacent.

  40. The streets are broad and paved, both in the city and its suburbs, but the houses of the suburbs are mostly of wood, intermixed with thatched huts.

  41. They shall encamp in front of the Ettlinger Gate, so that no one, whosoever it may be, will be able to cross the bridges connecting the city with the suburbs without passing through their ranks.

  42. You may say to him, 'The gates are to be closed in order to prevent the populace of the suburbs from reaching the city.

  43. Falkirk now comprises the suburbs of Laurieston (E.

  44. In 1892 a canal was being cut, close to where Lilienthal lived, in the suburbs of Berlin, and with the surplus earth Lilienthal had a special hill thrown up to fly from.

  45. Johannisthal aerodrome in the suburbs of Berlin at 6.

  46. The effect of their reforms was that all protection to life and property was withdrawn, and that gangs of robbers plundered and slaughtered with impunity in the very suburbs of Calcutta.

  47. The beautiful suburbs were burned to the ground.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suburbs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambit; barrio; borderland; circle; circuit; circumstances; city; compass; context; core; downtown; entourage; environs; habitat; midtown; milieu; neighborhood; outpost; outskirts; perimeter; periphery; precincts; purlieu; purlieus; situation; slum; suburbs; surroundings; tenderloin; uptown; vicinity