Synonym: citified, civic, metropolitan, municipal. Antonym: rural. Similar words: suburban, suburb, disturb, verbal, garbage, verbatim, ban, band. Meaning: ['ɜrbən /'ɜːbən] adj. 1. relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area 2. located in or characteristic of a city or city life.
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31. The speed limit is strictly enforced on urban roads.
32. Without a lot of money, the mayor won't be able to stop urban decay.
33. The world urban population is rocketing upwards at a rate of 6.5 per cent per year.
34. Urban planners in practice have to take account of many interest groups in society.
35. They had not been exposed to most diseases common to urban populations.
36. His analysis of urban use of agricultural land has been proved essentially correct.
37. Most of the urban poor are effectively excluded from politics.
38. With bonfires outlawed in urban areas, gardeners must cart their refuse to a dump.
39. Urban dwellers often accept noise as part of city life.
40. The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
41. Mr Urban looks increasingly like someone fighting a rearguard action to keep their job.
42. His parents are trying to make up to him for the restrictions of urban living.
43. The new museum is nothing but an excrescence on the urban landscape.
44. The government tried to remit the urban residents into stability.
45. Urban development has led to the ruination of vast areas of countryside.
46. The Vespa scooter became emblematic of sophisticated urban culture across Europe.
47. Modern industry has been concentrated in a few urban centers.
48. Originally the charity was set up to help orphans in urban areas.
49. urban architectural renewal that prognosticates a social and cultural renaissance.
50. We drove through miles of urban sprawl before we finally got out into the countryside.
51. Economic prosperity was won on the backs of the urban poor.
52. His natural supporters are the urban poor[sentencedict.com], and educated people of a liberal turn of mind.
53. The speed limit in urban areas is usually 30 or 40 mph.
54. Pollution has reached disturbingly high levels in some urban areas.
55. The undulating planes of the countryside provide relief from the hard horizontals and verticals of the urban scene.
56. The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6m people.
57. Those wishing to study urban development have a ready-made example on their doorstep.
58. Industrialization inevitably led to the expansion of the urban working class.
59. But a concerted effort has begun to improve the quality of the urban air.
60. Most urban water supplies in the United States now contain fluoride in varying amounts.