Sentence examples for seedy suburban from inspiring English sources
Frank also lives in a seedy suburban neighborhood far from any center of action.
His 1974 play Knuckle, about an arms dealer looking for his missing sister, employs all the tropes of the hard-boiled detective story, transposed to a seedy postwar suburban England.
Skinnier tubes of smoke trail from the cigarettes that characters light incessantly as they drink their nights away in Bart's Bar, a seedy, nearly empty emporium in a suburban town.
Three separate rooms (a galley kitchen with old-fashioned fittings, a seedy hotel room, a six-year-old girl's suburban bedroom) have been built on the second floor.
'GAVIN & STACEY BBCBC, 2007-10) = 'FRIENDS AND FOXILY' (FOX) This sweet, funny, slightly cloying British comedy traces the ups and downs of the title characters' relationship, from online to long-distance to uneasily married, getting comic mileage from the contrast between Gavin's English suburban environs and attitudes and Stacey's seedy surroundings on the Welsh seaside.
This is generally recognized as a metaphor for the seedy underworld that Jeffrey will soon discover under the surface of his own suburban, Reaganesque paradise.
