How to Use rural in a Sentence

rural

adjective
  • She lives in a rural area.
  • In rural areas, more roads have been paved.
    — Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Be sure to look north in dark, rural areas away from city lights.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In many rural areas, there are none.
    — Jerry Gurwitz, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2026
  • There were eight more does behind the buck, all crossing the rural road.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That stops now with this program that will spark real change for rural health care.
    — Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But staffing rural health care has also gotten tougher.
    — NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
  • As many as five rural hospitals could close.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The pair appeared to be in a rural area surrounded by grass and hay bales.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Both struggle to keep roads paved and provide health care in rural areas.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The land is in a rural area, with many people owning livestock.
    — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Turkeys in cities face fewer foes than their brethren in rural areas.
    — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2024
  • My siblings all lived in rural places within half an hour’s drive of our hometown.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That’s more than a third of rural hospitals in the country.
    — Daniel Torrent, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The church is in what until 2013 was a rural school on five acres.
    — Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 30 July 2025
  • Under pressure, some rural states are making their own moves to help.
    — ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • France, for a long time, was more rural than industrial.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Squire lives in a small town in rural Texas, a state where trans people have felt attacked.
    — Emily Brindley, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The rural scenery is pretty, but not so majestic as to feel distant.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Python hunting is often done by simply looking for the snakes along rural roads.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
  • White has lived most of his life in small Iowa cities surrounded by rural areas.
    — NBC News, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Like many in the rural area, the men planned to work and send money back to support their families.
    — Sonia Perez D., Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • For people in small towns and rural areas, the choices are fewer.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The fire occurred in a rural, non-hydrated area of the county.
    — Allana Haynes, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The treatment shortage is even worse in lesser cities and rural areas.
    — WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Many hope that this funding will save rural hospitals that serve patients like mine.
    — Daniel Torrent, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
  • There’s also the fact that people live closer to forests in some states that boast large rural areas.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • Many homes in rural and outlying areas are made from mud bricks and wood, with many poorly built.
    — ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Even the rural birds were willing to raid farm garages and trash bins to upgrade their collections.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026
  • And affordable, healthy groceries are even harder to come by in rural food deserts.
    — Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025

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