How to Use bedroom community in a Sentence

bedroom community

noun
  • Don’t just move here and be a bedroom community and drive to Fort Worth.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The bedroom community of four-lane roads and strip malls was finally getting its downtown.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2026
  • SoHo is now a bedroom community for Wall Street.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Once a bedroom community for the nearby city of Donetsk, Avdiivka has long stood at the front line of war.
    — Tyler Hicks Gaëlle Girbes, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • White said that together, his bedroom community will survive.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The borough endures as an ultra-wealthy bedroom community to New York City.
    — Mary Forgione, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • That may look like incentivizing Live-Work planning that would bring the right mix of business to our bedroom community.
    — Heather McRea, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Winslow is looking to move toward a potential future as a bedroom community for Flagstaff, about 58 miles away.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024
  • This is the story of one such opportunity in a San Diego bedroom community.
    — Wes Janssen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2023
  • The popular bedroom community grew for the next 40 years, becoming known for excellent schools.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In Broomfield, two developers trying to build a downtown for the bedroom community say the city has thrown them for a loop at the last minute — and the city’s top staffer is to blame.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2026
  • As such, this weekend will serve as a homecoming for the school’s new sports czar, who was born and raised in a bedroom community 43 miles north of 30 Rock.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Nov. 2024
  • As freeways began connecting Santee to the rest of the county, this city transformed from a rural center to a bedroom community.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The book traces the history and fragile legacy of black cowboys in a Los Angeles bedroom community.
    — Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Carbondale used to be the cheaper bedroom community to Aspen, 45 minutes away.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • New York — Oviedo, a bedroom community outside Orlando, has been trying to build a new police station for a decade.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
  • Even though Walnut Creek was still considered a bedroom community in the 1970s, its downtown had some edge.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • Miramar will have at least two new faces on its five-member commission after Tuesday’s at-large election — possibly three if the lone incumbent in the race is unseated. Miramar, a bedroom community in southwest Broward County founded in 1955, faces many challenges ahead.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Their second project, in the affluent bedroom community Falls Church, where the couple grew up, is decidedly homier.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The 59th Assembly district is a bedroom community and commuter district.
    — Destiny Torres, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The social epicenter of a steadily growing bedroom community, those handful of blocks are where residents flock for farmers markets, tree-lighting ceremonies and summer concerts.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The goal is to turn the Salt Lake County bedroom community into a destination all its own, while maintaining the rural feel residents enjoy.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In Fairfax, a onetime bedroom community that has rapidly developed in recent decades, another challenge was convincing some neighbors that kids could learn just as well in a vertical office complex.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The public rift between two top officials in this quiet bedroom community of 2,702 has sparked an outcry from village residents, some of whom have called for the mayor’s resignation.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2024
  • There’s been a lot of progress in modernizing the town that transitioned from a farming to a bedroom community since Chatfield took office in November 1977.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • The community demographics gradually changed from mostly a retirement community to more of a bedroom community with many more young people and families.
    — Steven Franck, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Those who live in the south Orange County bedroom community of Hunter’s Creek will share their member of Congress with retirees in The Villages.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
  • In Ouray, a bedroom community near the wealthier Telluride, a survey by the nonprofit Bright Futures found that 80% of respondents don’t have adequate child care.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Originally an agricultural and mining town, Carbondale began to have its home values pulled more and more upward by nearby Aspen, eventually becoming a bedroom community to Aspen.
    — Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Starting in the 1980s, the area experienced population decline, disinvestment, aging housing and a steep decline in traffic, shifting from destination to bedroom community.
    — Andrew King, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025

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