How to Use urbanite in a Sentence

urbanite

noun
  • The biggest change is that urbanites want to work, enjoy and live in the same place now.
    — Sunay Sanghani, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
  • Moreover, the amount of that held free or debt would surprise many urbanites.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In cities around the world, urbanites look to the suburbs for more space or a nicer house for their money.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • On the flip side, that means urbanites have a lot of power to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.
    — Julia Rosen, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
  • Traffic-weary urbanites would ditch their cars for easy pick-up, easy drop-off, fun-to-ride vehicles.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 1 May 2018
  • Former urbanite Lee has slowly gotten used to their lives on the farm over the past six years.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Only about a fifth of urbanites rent homes in China, compared with a third in the rich world.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Jake played the part of a well-heeled, physically fit urbanite obsessed with killing a bear.
    — Hal Herring, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Warehouses like these are becoming a way of life for many urbanites.
    — Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2017
  • What ever happened to the upstate ex-urbanites who moved hours away but now need to come to the office five days a week?
    — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Thanks to advances in public health, urbanites began living longer and longer.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The shadow of the wild continues to haunt the psyche of even the most entrenched urbanite.
    — Christopher Preston, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
  • But young adults, urbanites and others are also far less likely to partake in hunting.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The roads keep getting worse, too, as suburbanites and urbanites both add to their stables of cars.
    — Curbed, 31 May 2023
  • Young urbanites snapped selfies and cheered while local farmers and children in school uniforms looked on.
    — Guerchom Ndebo, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Middle-class urbanites, not to mention the wealthy, are spending their money on much else besides.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Hoffman is an urbanite and a journalist who had been writing about food and agriculture for years.
    — Jane Smiley, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
  • This is an urban hotel, with an ultra-chic vibe, frequented by modern urbanites from all over the world.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Not that farmers need the Internet the way modern urbanites do.
    — James Lileks, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • Most of the audience will consist of fashionable urbanites and the tie-dye and ponytail set.
    — Bill Brownlee, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
  • Most middle-class urbanites thought the protests were more an outpouring of frustration and anger than a movement with a clear goal.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • Sullen teenagers, Southern good old boys, arty urbanites, elite test pilots — all measured themselves by what their peers thought of them.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
  • Chinlund and Reeves were excited that this journey saw Bruce Wayne as an urbanite.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Young urbanites here were more likely than under-30s anywhere else to rate their city as an ideal environment to make friends.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But the number of liberal urbanites who won’t be able to elect like-minded members of Congress is growing.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • According to Koday, that’s a valid parallel, thanks to its vibe and all the former urbanites who end up living there.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
  • The Byar Volta is an electric city bike designed for urbanites with a penchant for luxury, not speed.
    — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 17 July 2019
  • Even New York City’s urbanites have convenient options for hitting the slopes.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Transplanted urbanites frequent the local café and the grocery store, and help create new businesses.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2025
  • Which means my accent is some unruly hybrid of Wu-Tang groomed urbanite and Black hillbilly.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022

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