How to Use urbanite in a Sentence

urbanite

noun
Definition of urbanitenext
Synonyms for urbanitenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • The shadow of the wild continues to haunt the psyche of even the most entrenched urbanite.
    — Christopher Preston, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Only about a fifth of urbanites rent homes in China, compared with a third in the rich world.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Two hours west in Durham sits the Pit, a modern place near downtown where urbanites can choose...
    — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2019
  • 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
  • Jake played the part of a well-heeled, physically fit urbanite obsessed with killing a bear.
    — Hal Herring, Field & Stream, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Traffic-weary urbanites would ditch their cars for easy pick-up, easy drop-off, fun-to-ride vehicles.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 1 May 2018
  • Most of the audience will consist of fashionable urbanites and the tie-dye and ponytail set.
    — Bill Brownlee, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
  • But even as well-to-do urbanites embraced greenery, voters in Queensland, where the economy has struggled since the end of the mining boom, warmed to the idea of the mine.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • The roads keep getting worse, too, as suburbanites and urbanites both add to their stables of cars.
    — Curbed, 31 May 2023
  • Not that farmers need the Internet the way modern urbanites do.
    — James Lileks, National Review, 20 June 2019
  • That part of it is so profound, especially for the urbanite.
    — Vogue, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Only 50 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, the park and the hut are easily reached by urbanites looking for a wilderness escape.
    — David Gladish, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Strohl is the kind of guy, and his are the kind of photos, that make urbanites and homebodies want to renounce their Netflix subscriptions and go chop some wood in the pouring rain.
    — Sami Emory, GQ, 2 Apr. 2018
  • As a booming resort town in the 1950s, Guerneville catered to vacationing Bay Area urbanites.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The mass protests unnerved the Kremlin, which had been inclined to dismiss Navalny’s supporters as a small cadre of well-off urbanites.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The incident also spoke to the divide between town and country, between the urbanites who buy the organic eggs, and the farm folk who kill the pigs and sheep that people eat.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Middle-class urbanites, not to mention the wealthy, are spending their money on much else besides.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • On weekday evenings, throngs of well-heeled, mostly white urbanites take to the Katy Trail, an elevated, tree-lined path north of downtown.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 23 June 2017
  • To Coleman, the project—and the debate that’s surrounded it—reflect the shifting priorities of a new kind of urbanite.
    — Jay Walljasper, WIRED, 3 July 2018
  • Frugal months allowed the former urbanites to save enough money to quit their jobs and move out of Cambridge, Mass. to rural Vermont.
    — NBC News, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Chinlund and Reeves were excited that this journey saw Bruce Wayne as an urbanite.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2022
  • World Class Beanies The ribbed knit beanie has earned its place as a winter style staple for everyone from downtown urbanites to Alpine skiers.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Now, more than 56 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people are urbanites.
    — Cao Li, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2016
  • Thanks to advances in public health, urbanites began living longer and longer.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 18 Aug. 2017
  • In the morning, huge crowds of ordinary Indians, a mix of urbanites and villagers, flocked to the Central Vista on foot and by bicycle.
    — Daniel Brook, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023

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