How to Use burb in a Sentence

burb

noun
  • Davis was born in our burbs and lived here for the first four years of her life.
    — Lauren McCutcheon, Philly.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Larsa Pippen found out the hard way what life is like in the mean ‘burbs.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
  • People coming out of college who don’t want to go back to the burbs.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Yet young remote workers trading cities for ‘burbs still seek a blend of both.
    — Michael Zaransky, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Loving it in the northern burbs with very little AC use so far!
    — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
  • With few exceptions, all my friends are married, having kids, and buying houses in the ’burbs.
    — Raleigh McCool, Longreads, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Teeth-chattering lows range from the upper teens in colder burbs to the mid-20s downtown.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
  • While in the Virginia burbs for a meeting, had the chance to stop by Crooked Run Brewing.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
  • To keep housing prices out of the seven figures, developers are forced to split the ‘burbs into smaller lot sizes.
    — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 5 June 2024
  • Knock on wood that one kid's soccer team has insufficient warm bodies for a weekend tournament in a boring burb.
    — The Hive, 26 May 2017
  • In recent months, several businesses in the city and burbs have been hit by various crews going after the gaming slots.
    — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • How great that kids in the western ‘burbs, especially, have such affordable access to theater of this quality.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This time not as an exotic live-work bachelor pad — its long-time use — but as a second home for a family of four that uses it to as a getaway from the burbs to the city.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2018
  • The urban suit crowd can carry their bike from the ‘burbs by commuter train, then unfold and ride the last few miles to the office, refolding in a flash for the elevator.
    — Christine Frietchen, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 May 2020
  • Therefore, Mark, who still listens to music on a boombox, would have been living way out in the ’burbs since the financial crash of 2008.
    — Anna Pook, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The app is delivering several Chicago restaurants to the 'burbs the week of Thanksgiving.
    — Monica Eng, Axios, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Olson is 2nd swing suburban Rep (Woodall from Atlanta burbs) to announce retirement this year.
    — NBC News, 26 July 2019
  • Wags used to say that out in the ’burbs, names memorialized the things construction had displaced, so the Oaks at Fox Chase was a place that had no oaks and no foxes.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • In the fall of 2031, the Stars will be in the ‘burbs and the Mavericks will be in north Dallas, close but yet very far away from downtown.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2026
  • That’s why last summer, Anthony (known affectionately by fans as Melo) packed up his furniture and his trove of blue-chip art and moved out to the ’burbs.
    — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
  • Waaay out in the burbs, in a city called Alpharetta, lives a high-end shopping, dining, drinking experience called The Avalon.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2019
  • Through the years, the quaint 'burb has accepted being the butt of jokes, quite literally in the form of Vulcan's derriere, while stubbornly standing up for its independence.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook, pounding around the burbs with a garbage bag sort of medievally layered over his hoodie, is jogging.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 9 May 2020
  • Bratwurst, sauerkraut, pretzels, potato pancakes with apple butter, and plenty of beer are all on the menu for this traditional-style Oktoberfest in the Philly ‘burbs.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Shuttle buses will depart from eight locations around Chicago to take fest-goers to SeatGeek Stadium in the near-southwest ‘burbs.
    — Doug George, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2024
  • But last year’s county executive contest put Trumpism on trial in the northern burbs, with disastrous results for Republicans.
    — Peter Keating, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Now stranded in the ‘burbs with two children she’s barely interacted with and no servants, Rudi does as little as possible to adjust, preferring to bend the neighbors and mean girl mommies to her own twisted sense of propriety.
    — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 10 July 2024
  • As is well-documented, the pandemic prompted more Americans to fall out of love with cities, with the ‘burbs enjoying the latest of their many revivals, Pew Research Center found.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2023
  • Putting Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth in the discussion as potential landing sites is mostly for leverage, as the Stars are part of a trend of teams participating in the sports version of white flight, and heading to the ‘burbs.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In late September, moveBuddha, a website dedicated to relocation, released its top suburbs to move to this fall, after discovering in its 2025 moving survey that one-third of Americans want to move to the 'burbs this year.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025

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