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