How to Use exurb in a Sentence

exurb

noun
  • Northam also swept Richmond as well as its suburbs and exurbs.
    — James A. Barnes, CNN, 14 June 2017
  • This may all seem obvious; space in dense superstar cities costs more than land in spread-out exurbs.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 24 June 2019
  • The party’s core constituents are white and Christian, and live in exurbs, small towns, and rural areas.
    — Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Democrats are clustered in dense cities; Republicans are spread in suburbs and exurbs.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Livingston County is a changing exurb, with strong housing and income growth.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Albert emerged from the exurbs of Los Angeles and embraced the city in all its guises.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
  • The exurbs, the engine of the American housing market, are back.
    — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Their neon signs glow across cities, suburbs, exurbs, and rural small towns alike, even when many other kinds of retail stores are struggling to stay afloat in the same places.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
  • In addition, younger homebuyers want to live closer to urban areas, not in the far-out exurbs, where builder costs are far lower.
    — Diana Olick, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The two Voyagers are now out in the exurbs of the solar system, far beyond the orbit of even the dwarf planet Pluto.
    — Joel Achenbach, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Democrats roared back to roll up big wins in fast-growing suburbs and even some exurbs that are home to legions of affluent and highly educated voters.
    — Dave Goldiner, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In many parts of the country, suburbs and exurbs have seen the biggest population gains in the last decade, while inner cities have often lost residents.
    — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2024
  • In Anani, an exurb a dozen miles east of Abidjan, our cars left the highway and drove through sand and scrub to reach 2Africa’s beach manhole.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The drop has coincided with the construction of more housing, primarily in the state’s suburbs and exurbs.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • And as development spreads away from downtown and toward exurbs like Homestead, commute times may only be getting longer for some.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Russell lives in Brunswick, the last southwestern exurb before greater Cleveland gives way to farmland.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 15 Aug. 2024
  • There’s the woman who insists on her right to raise tigers, with possibly dire consequences for the neighbors in her New Jersey exurb.
    — Jeremy McCarter, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The 2nd District stretches from Chicago’s South Side to its southern exurbs.
    — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • He was raised in a housing project in the underprivileged exurb of Trappes, 20 miles west of Paris, one of seven children.
    — Vivienne Walt, Time, 8 June 2021
  • What made Walmart choose this particular exurb outside Dallas for a major store opening and author event?
    — John Hope Bryant, Time, 28 May 2026
  • Although the rest of the country is said to be hopelessly polarized, New York’s suburbs and exurbs are undecided.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
  • An exurb of an exurb Anna, Texas, more than 45 miles north of downtown Dallas, is seeing the same kind of migration.
    — Mike Schneider, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Retiree Lee Houk of Pewaukee, a booming exurb west of Milwaukee, was just as dismissive of the tax claims.
    — Thomas Beaumont, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The surprise came in the Midwest and Sunbelt, which saw a massive jump in exclusive zip codes — found in their urban centers, close-in suburbs, and fringe exurbs — in just a few years.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 18 Oct. 2024
  • About 250 miles away, in the eastern exurbs of Denver, the volunteer shortage has become so noticeable that local fire chiefs talk about it in life-or-death terms.
    — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
  • The comic-book-loving Black rapper from the largely white exurb of Rosemount brought along a full band, horn section, stage props, giddy dancers and an own-the-moment zeal to rule the room that night.
    — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The question for the general election is whether Abrams can parlay her support to hold down likely losses in North Georgia and capture some of the Atlanta exurbs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • Two candidates are competing to become the next mayor of Grain Valley, the fast-growing exurb on the eastern end of the Kansas City Metro.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The competitive Democratic field reflects national party enthusiasm to contest what has been a red-leaning seat in the northern exurbs of Atlanta.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The Arizona Legislature opened the door for developers to use more groundwater in the Phoenix exurbs by taking over farmers' allocations.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025

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