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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Krome complex is in a vast dead zone on the outskirts of Miami, just on the border of the Everglades.
    Ken Silverstein, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Although my mother was born in a tiny shtetl on the outskirts of Kyiv, this was my first visit there.
    Byjeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In that war, troops just focused on the outskirts of urban areas.
    Susannah George, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The Post was permitted to attend the event at New Life, a modest church on the rural outskirts of Greenville.
    Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2024
  • On the outskirts of the Bloodline story is Drew McIntyre’s obsession with the group.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025

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