How to Use urbanity in a Sentence

urbanity

noun
  • At that point, all of the affluence, urbanity and privilege in the world wasn’t much good.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • And with many of us wound up in concrete urbanity, the livestreams offer instant transportation to the wild.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Houses and businesses bright and shining, a halo of urbanity blazing against the night sky.
    — Paolo Bacigalupi, Wired News, 27 May 2015
  • By all accounts, artist and elephant shared the same Gallic urbanity and optimistic outlook.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Some people do tell her that Greenville is too small, too isolated from big-city attractions — a minor island of urbanity in a sea of farms and fields.
    — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Catherine’s house doesn’t evoke Hyde Park brownstones, or even urbanity, so much as some generic Midwest vista, which is not right for this play.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • America had raised a generation of young people who, on average, valued the things urbanity had to offer.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 15 June 2020
  • There are few activities more democratic and astonishing than looking up into a night sky, even when ensconced in the murky depths of urbanity.
    — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The chef says he was lured to the Watermark by the promise of creative control and the opportunity to bring some urbanity to the suburbs.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Emerging from the confines of urbanity, the true capabilities of the S7's heart began to show.
    — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Some 100 stores now carry her trademark blend of architectural body-conscious urbanity.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • It is well known that Kissinger admired Metternich for his urbanity and virtuosity as a statesman.
    — A. Wess Mitchell, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • In this volume, the designer reflects deeply on the diverse aesthetics of French urbanity versus rural living.
    — Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2024
  • These sounds have a way of transporting people and their mindsets away from the urbanity of the street, and also reflect that our language is alive, spoken intergenerationally by elders and children alike.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Nature and urbanity uncomfortably thrust together — part of the allure and danger of Los Angeles.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Waldron was the epitome of style and urbanity in jazz, from his pendulous brown cigarette dangling from his fingers to his signature coifed natural Black hair that grew into a stately white.
    — Shannon J. Effinger, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The finale starts with a motoric toccata that could have come from Bartók, then moves on to imitate an Irish jig, before adding a bit of boogie-woogie; the suave opening of the work draws from the luxe urbanity of Poulenc.
    — Russell Platt, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Destry’s actions create the conditions for the next two sections, in which Sask-E goes from a Pleistocene-like ecology bare of any humans to a dense urbanity full of landlords and renters of multiple species.
    — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Ikebukuro — a bustling hub of Japanese urbanity and pop culture in central Tokyo — has become the unofficial center of gachapon culture, with the machines spilling out of seemingly every storefront.
    — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Advertisement Mamdani’s vision of an equitable, affordable urbanity emerges as a challenge to this long history of abandonment and exclusion.
    — Fahad Zuberi, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That careful dance between subdued and remote, classic Maine and urbanity, is also winding its way into neighboring coastal villages, and settling in among the area’s working fishing fleets, general stores, and no-frills lobster pounds.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Manet’s buddy Charles Baudelaire, the disputatious journalist, poet and art critic, described artists’ emerging role as being painters of modern life, and urbanity seeped into many private nooks and crannies.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • In April 1978 my family traded Boston urbanity for the relatively untamed South.
    — Michael Kerrigan, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2017
  • His music is, in the best sense, grown-up, proof that a gifted songwriter can tackle the headiest, heaviest topics, compressing a novel’s worth of ideas, intelligence, irony, urbanity, humor and ambivalence into four minutes.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In the surrounding countryside are Palladio’s villas, where the architect combined opulent living quarters and working farm buildings into coherent complexes that married nature with culture, rusticity and urbanity.
    — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2019
  • In Otsuki’s collection, elements of the Japanese salaryman mixed with the urbanity of Gere’s Julian Kay create a compelling blend of references that ultimately play to each designer’s strength.
    — Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The original safari outfitter, Banana Republic’s recent designs nod to its adventurous heritage while maintaining a sophisticated urbanity.
    — Ryan Haase, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The ambient, Brubekian theme music (composed by a musician with the gloriously appropriate name of Champ Champagne), conspicuously placed objèts and half-empty wine wall implied a sort of refinement and urbanity that was more indicated than real.
    — Courtney Lichterman, Robb Report, 3 June 2021

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