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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The outskirts are filled with footballs and basketballs next to goalposts and rims.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
• Protesters filled the outskirts of Dodger Stadium and fans shared their thoughts on the night.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
• One New York City mom of two, who has spent the past 20 summers at her house on the outskirts of the village, had driven in from the city the night before.
  — Stephanie Krikorian, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2024
• Venture to Getsemani on the outskirts, which is now one of the hippest areas to be and is chock-full of murals and street art.
  — Meg Donohue, ELLE, 28 Apr. 2023
• Nichols, who was an avid skateboarder, spent much time as a youth at the park on the outskirts of Sacramento.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 13 June 2023
• Abu Alaa and Hirschfeld agreed to hold more meetings, with the help of a Norwegian institute, on the outskirts of Oslo.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Our trip had started on the outskirts of San José at Hotel Bougainvillea.
  — National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019
• Wimbledon was scheduled to be played on the club's grass courts on the outskirts of London from June 29 to July 12.
  — Howard Fendrich, Houston Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2020
• Those albums took Booker — who grew up in a trailer park in the deep red outskirts of Tampa, Florida, and cut his teeth in Gainesville’s stalwart punk scene — around the world.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024