rural

[ˈrʊrəl]

Definition:
1. Living in or characteristic of farming or country life.
2. Relating to rural areas.

Use 'rural' in a sentence:

• 1. These plants have a tendency to grow in the more rural areas.
• 2. These works have a strong flavor of rural life.
• 3. The rebels came overwhelmingly from the poorest strata of rural society.
• 4. To develop city can well promoting rural development.
• 5. Rural schools were hamstrung by their inability to attract and keep experienced staff.
• 6. It totally destroyed the state's rural landscape.
• 7. In rural areas, the school is often the focal point for the local community.
• 8. In rural France, English language magazines are rather hard to come by.
• 9. They announced the initiation of a rural development programme.
• 10. These works have a strong flavour of rural life.
• 11. 60 years ago half the French population still lived in rural areas.
• 12. She finds that the sleepy town she moves to isn't the rural idyll she imagined.
• 13. It also helped to create jobs in rural areas.
• 14. He spoke with a heavy rural accent.
• 15. Rural communities are widely separated and often small.
• 16. Rural residents are likely to find their lives in the boondocks too restrictive.
• 17. Consort has a population of 714 and is about as rural and isolated as you can get.
• 18. The recycling scheme gets its first try-out in rural Dorset.
• 19. Much of his early work is concerned with the minutiae of rural life.
• 20. For many, the essence of French living is to be found in the rural heartlands.
• 21. This rural outpost, 400 miles northeast of Helena, has one stoplight.
• 22. The lure of rural life is proving as strong as ever.
• 23. They'll entice thousands of doctors to move from the cities to the rural areas by paying them better salaries.
• 24. The rural people have been impoverished by a collapsing economy.
• 25. Desegregation may be harder to enforce in rural areas.
• 26. The government believes that more money should be spent on improving public transport in rural areas.
• 27. As rural factories shed labour, people drift towards the cities.
• 28. It was a delightful rural scene.
• 29. They look really dramatic in this rural setting.
• 30. The landscape has remained predominantly rural in appearance.
• 31. Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote.
• 32. Agriculture forms the backbone of the rural economy.
• 33. Husbanding precious resources was part of rural life.
• 34. Powerful traditional chiefs hold sway over more than 15 million people in rural areas.
• 35. Why ruin rural ones?
• 36. The central plank of the bill was rural development.
• 37. The plan has the added advantage of bringing employment to rural areas.
• 38. In France patois was spoken in rural, less developed regions.
• 39. There are tax breaks for businesses that locate in rural areas.
• 40. Rural areas have been worst hit by the strike.
• 41. She lives in a quiet corner of rural Yorkshire.
• 42. A rural single railway track meanders through the valley.
• 43. The rural population has become increasingly politicized in recent years.
• 44. Thousands were forced to migrate from rural to urban areas in search of work.
• 45. Japan has advanced from a rural, feudal society to an urban, industrial power.
• 46. School crime and violence cuts across urban, rural and suburban areas.
• 47. The survey was carried out in both urban and rural areas.
• 48. He has a romantic view of rural society.