How to Use outskirt in a Sentence

outskirt

noun

• Left on the outskirts is Beth, who was once the top dog.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2019
• The market is in Rungis, a suburb on the outskirts of Paris.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
• That was the month IS seized large parts of Iraq, pushing all the way to the outskirts of Baghdad.
  — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2020
• The districts closest to downtown don't change at all, and most of the shifts are on the outskirts of the city.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
• In this case, the position is on the outskirts of the NCAA bubble.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
• The site is about a 40-mile drive from Penn Hills, the city on the outskirts of Pittsburgh where the child was last seen alive.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019
• Even on the outskirts of town, near the shopping plaza and the megachurch, the GOP is winning lawns in a landslide.
  — David Litt, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
• The film Stand By Me has a quality of that—playing on the outskirts of town on the train tracks.
  — Chris Ritter, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2024
• Unlike the Dodgers, the Angels are on the outskirts of the postseason chase.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
• Five or so cars were initially parked in the church's lot, with a few more lined up on the outskirts.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2020
• And the school is literally in the middle of a desert, on the outskirts of Lima.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
• Dunford spoke with the San Antonio Express-News at the farm on the outskirts of the city.
  — Megan Rodriguez, ExpressNews.com, 8 July 2019
• The shooting occurred on the outskirts of the city of Orebro, about 125 miles west of Stockholm.
  — Stefanie Dazio, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
• There, on the outskirts of the Mojave desert, 400 giant mirrors, each the size of a large flatscreen TV, twitch in the sunlight.
  — Wired, 22 Nov. 2019
• By the third hour in a field on the outskirts of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, my hair had taken on the hue of the dust that filled the air in roaming clouds.
  — New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020
• Want to book a palatial villa on the outskirts of Florence and ride horses through the foothills of Italy?
  — Thessaly La Force, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2024
• The deadliest of the dozens of assaults so far were on the outskirts of Kunduz in the north in the early hours of Wednesday.
  — Najim Rahim, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2020
• The two met at the Prime Minister’s residence on the outskirts of Madrid.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2020
• In 2021, my husband Evan and I sold our house and urban farm on the outskirts of New Orleans.
  — Dani Benton, Contributor, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
• Boys wait for bread at a bakery in Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
• Pictured, an aerial shot of a plant on the outskirts of Shanghai, Jan. 12.
  — Lingling Wei, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2019
• In summer 2017, the unit moved to the outskirts of Raqqah, capital of Islamic State’s caliphate, for the start of a siege.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• Slowthai grew up on the outskirts of Northampton, a town about 60 miles northwest of London.
  — Tara Mahadevan, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• But there's a lot more to this charming town on the outskirts of the Sumter National Forest.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 24 June 2024
• Even as water levels rose, Russian troops were still shelling the town on the outskirts of the city of Kherson.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• The church was actually a crypt, beneath a church, on the outskirts.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Dec. 2023
• Ars spent a day driving the Hornet around the outskirts of Asheville and found a lot to like about this handsome crossover.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2023
• The deaths occurred in Yongjia County on the outskirts of Wenzhou, a major port city.
  — SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• That would price a lot of buyers out of the market, and keep those who have been sidelined since rates went up last year on the outskirts.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 11 May 2023
• As the Metroplex boomed, Fort Worth’s far northern outskirts garnered a new appeal.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025