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.