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
• Floodwaters overtook his family’s home on the outskirts of the city in Swannanoa.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
• 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 rehab center was on a plot of land in Rio’s northwestern outskirts, with a soccer field, a chapel, a kitchen, and several rooms containing bunk beds.
  — Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The patient who died was described as a 61-year-old man who had been a frequent customer at a food market on Wuhan’s outskirts linked to the majority of cases.
  — SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• The plane, fully loaded with fuel for its 1,430-mile flight, slammed into farmland near the town of Shahedshahr on the outskirts of Tehran.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2020
• Fires are burning all over the country, including on the outskirts of Sydney, Melbourne and the capital, Canberra.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 30 Dec. 2019
• The couple then live on the outskirts of Gotham, with Harley trying to play house, so to speak, while the Joker saves his most terrorizing hijinks to torment her behind closed doors.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
• A day after the announcement, scores were injured in clashes between protesters and security forces, as demonstrations spread from central Beirut to the outskirts of the city.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 24 Jan. 2020
• Atay lingers on the outskirts, keeping the company of workers and wastrels, poets and drunks—all those who refuse the monumental transformations of Turkish society.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
• 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 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024