semirural

• “It would allow birds on any property in a yet-to-be-defined agricultural area, even if there's a house on it, or on any property two acres or larger in other semirural areas.”

  The Washington Post: Prince William County considers allowing residents to raise fowl in rural areas

• “Mr. Romney drew first when his campaign had Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, a semirural stretch of Arizona, record automated calls to Iowa voters last month calling Mr. Perry "part of the illegal-immigration problem.”

  The Wall Street Journal: High Noon on Immigration; Toss-Up on the Prairie

• “Baxter's semirural, Rust Belt Yoknapatawpha - where many of these stories take place.”

  The Washington Post: 'Gryphon: New and Selected Stories,' by Charles Baxter: Short but potent

• “Most of the stories Carver published before 1971 were domestic or semirural and traditionally realistic.”

  Simon & Schuster: Raymond Carver

• “It has sent a shudder of anxiety through a string of semirural communities about 25 minutes outside San Antonio.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Small Town Finds Itself Upended by a Public-Health Crisis

• “When Frank Lloyd Wright dreamed up Broadacre City-his utopian idea for semirural metropolises -- he declared the architecture of each should grow out of the character of its region.”

  Newsweek: A SENSE OF PLACE

• “As in other semirural states -- Missouri and North Carolina come to mind -- Colorado Democrats tend to be conservative Democrats.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Obama Targets Swing States

• “Most voters in the racially mixed, semirural constituency of Permatang Pauh, where Malays make up about 70% of the electorate, weren't moved by the government's effort to cast Mr. Anwar as someone who would betray Malay interests to pander to Malaysia's minorities.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Anwar's Victory in Malaysia

• “Delight runs a gambling club and discreet parlor house—i.e., a bordello—known as the Dancing Knave on semirural Rivington Street.”

  Simon & Schuster: City of Glory

• “They had an interest, almost a charm, for Sophy, these semirural people and vehicles moving in an urban atmosphere, leading a life quite distinct from that of the daytime toilers on the same road.”

  Life's Little Ironies

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