suburbanize
verb
sub·ur·ban·ize
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suburbanized;
suburbanizing
Definition of suburbanize
: to make suburban : give a suburban character to
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Other Words from suburbanize
suburbanization
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noun
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noun
Examples of suburbanize in a Sentence
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After Jacobs published her book in 1961, most American cities suburbanized, cutting people off from this kind of casual contact with the people around them. — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, "Service Workers Forced to Act Like Robots Meet Their Match," 8 May 2018 The sights and sounds and smells as big farm trailers back up to offload their livestock cargos on a sale day would seem more appropriate for a major Midwestern agricultural state than for highly urbanized and suburbanized Connecticut. — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, "In Changing Times, the Middlesex Livestock Auction is Still the Place to Buy Farm Animals," 13 Oct. 2017 The other two densest metro areas, San Francisco and Los Angeles, suburbanized only slightly. — Jed Kolko, New York Times, "Seattle Climbs but Austin Sprawls: The Myth of the Return to Cities," 22 May 2017 Once a land of dairy farms, Mission Valley served as a rural-like buffer between dense Uptown and suburbanizing Clairemont, Serra Mesa and other neighborhoods to the north. — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Civita Park: From quarry to pleasure grounds," 27 Apr. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'suburbanize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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