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Example sentences for "suburb"

Lexicographically close words:
subtribe; subtribes; subtropical; subtus; subulate; suburban; suburbanites; suburbes; suburbs; subvention
  1. The great aquarium at Waikiki, the bathing suburb of Honolulu, I found particularly fascinating.

  2. In going this way they passed through the poor suburb known as Hardpan.

  3. And the great tree that stood on the green in the same suburb has gone too.

  4. The footman sprang into his place, and Aneta and her aunt drove off in the comfortable brougham towards that suburb known as Clapham.

  5. Did he live in a London suburb he would be pointed out to the rising generation by anxious fathers as the very model for them to follow.

  6. In the jealous suburb of a city the dwellers in the villas would shrink from this winter custom, the constable would soon have orders to stop it; in the country people are not so rigidly exclusive.

  7. Another of the old Spanish colonial military roads, leaving Havana through the suburb of Marianao, sweeps away towards the southwest in a comparatively straight line until it reaches the city of Guanajay, 42 kilometers distant.

  8. Such was its popularity that capitalists some four years ago, were encouraged to erect in the suburb of Marianao the finest racing pavilion in the West Indies.

  9. Afterwards the short line connecting the city of Havana with the suburb of Marianao was absorbed, followed later by the taking over of the Cardenas and Jucaro Line.

  10. Between the city of Havana and the suburb of Ceiba, a modern rubber tire and tube factory has been established, and is said to be working on full time with very satisfactory profits.

  11. In fact, the place is a suburb of the town in the next valley, and the once quiet high-road is noisy with the motor-cars of the richer residents and all the town traffic that waits upon the less wealthy.

  12. Before them, their place was unoccupied, and they do but commemorate the first of that series of changes by which the valley has been turned from a desolate wrinkle in the heaths into the anomalous suburb it has become to-day.

  13. A bridge connects the town with the suburb of Ballydaheen.

  14. Although it is largely a residential suburb of Boston--its post office is a Boston sub-station--it has important manufacturing industries.

  15. Hus, in the meantime, had been hurried off to a Dominican convent, in a suburb of Constance, and was there thrown into a damp prison.

  16. A completely new suburb had been added during that reign, which was known as the New Town of Prague.

  17. This last objection Charles proceeded to meet by founding a new suburb of Prague, to be united by ditch, wall, and bridge with the old city, and to enjoy the same privileges as the rest of Prague.

  18. Kensington was now assuming the character it has ever since possessed, of a great residential suburb for aristocratic and wealthy London.

  19. Neither has the atmosphere of the Court suburb injuriously affected the definite and resolute Dissenting attitude of the community.

  20. Later in the day the British sallied out and set fire to the suburb of St. Roch, which had so long given shelter to the rebels.

  21. Miss Margery hesitated, then consented, and she and Anne trudged through the dingy suburb of shabby, scattered houses.

  22. The mansion was a roomy, old-fashioned house which his grandfather Patterson had built when Georgetown was a fashionable suburb of the capital.

  23. With this one exception, the private-venture colleges established in each suburb of the different capitals are little better than the commercial academies of England.

  24. Here lay the Canopian harbour, here the suburb of Eleusis; and the canal split into two branches.

  25. Babylon, a suburb of Memphis, swarmed on the river-bank and, with the battlements of its forts; was visible through a sycamore avenue.

  26. The yellow-fever, which had some months before appeared at Cadiz, began to show itself in our large suburb of Triana, on the other side of the Guadalquivir.

  27. Two droves of lean cattle are brought every week to a large slaughter-house (el matadero) which stands between one of the city gates and the suburb of San Bernardo.

  28. With the first streak of dawn on the fourth day they reached that uninhabited forest region, rent with numberless ravines, between the village of Dracinetz and the Swabian settlement of Rosch, which forms the western suburb of Czernowitz.

  29. A bridge, 300 yards long, connects it with its suburb Etwashausen on the left bank of the river.

  30. Since 1870 a Russian suburb has been laid out on a wide scale.

  31. The greater part of the town lies on the right bank of the river, while on the other side is the so-called Bridge Suburb and the citadel (erected in 1715).

  32. In 1896 the town again suffered at the hands of the British, when several of the largest and most ancient houses in the royal and priestly suburb of Bantama were destroyed by fire.

  33. In a raw young land such a literary oasis is like a Gothic Cathedral in the midst of a suburb of modern villas.

  34. Upon further inquiry it proved that these forgeries are made by certain Jews in a suburb of Bagdad--and, so far as is known, only there.

  35. Having heard that he lived in Koetchenbroda, a suburb of Dresden, I wrote to him from Cologne, asking for an interview.

  36. In the same year, 1844, he retired to a suburb of Paris, and there, he asserts, he built his famous writing and drawing figure.

  37. A company of hamals, generally natives of the same district or village, acquire the monopoly of carrying loads in a particular quarter or suburb of the town.

  38. A tramway carries one through Galata and Pera as far out as the suburb of Chichli, while another line runs close to the shore from the Inner Bridge to Ortakeui.

  39. No quarter in or around the city is so Turkish in its appearance and spirit as the suburb of Eyoub.

  40. At the latter suburb they crossed the stone bridge that led to Eyoub on the southern bank.

  41. The sacred associations of the suburb have made burial in its soil to be esteemed a great honour, and, accordingly, many distinguished Turkish personages have been laid to rest here from early times.

  42. The influence of the suburb is not weakened by the fact that it enters into the life of Turkish children by being a great factory of their toys.

  43. At the latter point the new bulwarks joined the walls which guarded the outlying 14th ward, the suburb of Blachernae, and thus enclosed the city down to the Golden Horn.

  44. It was natural that a suburb should spring up under the shelter of the bridge along the Strand, which is probably a Roman way.

  45. As says FitzStephen: "Outside one of the gates immediately in the suburb is a field smooth in fact as in name.

  46. The early existence of this western suburb would explain satisfactorily the name of Westminster, and possibly its origin.

  47. Fifty, established in the suburb of Triana, were mentioned in the sixteenth century by Pedro de Medina, and documents which tell of many more have recently been discovered by Gestoso.

  48. Roman potteries existed in the suburb of Seville called Triana, and in the provinces of Caceres and Badajoz.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suburb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    borough; burg; city; metropolis; municipality; outskirts; polis; suburb; township