How to Use outskirt in a Sentence

outskirt

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • On the outskirts of town, the Jackson County Jail lies down the road from the fairgrounds and a speedway, where stock cars race on Saturday nights.
    — Abigail Pesta, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Imagine plopping the Yellowstone Caldera down in the outskirts of Houston or Phoenix.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The White Helmets organization tweeted that a man was killed by the strike on the outskirts of the town of Killi, in Idlib province.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Meanwhile, her best friend, Leo, lives in the rustic outskirts of British Columbia.
    — Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • In Oleshky, many residents moved from the outskirts of town to the center, which sits on an elevated plain.
    — Samya Kullab, Evgeniy Maloletka, Sam McNeil, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
  • Mohamed fled to her family's house in the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday.
    — Ayat Al-Tawy, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • During winter, Ramos placed bird feeders on the outskirts of the forest to see if the bird would eat from them, but the effort failed, as the bullfinch showed no interest.
    — Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Ukraine still holds some territory on the southwestern outskirts of the city.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 26 May 2023
  • Most European evacuations took place out of a site on the outskirts of Khartoum, and evacuees had to make their way across the city to reach it.
    — Jack Jeffery and Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The war had already left scars on the family, who live in a tent camp for people displaced by the war on the outskirts of the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • And military troops are seen on the outskirts of San Francisco as viewers are informed the city has been closed due to crime and fentanyl.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker and John Wagner, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The small mountain town, just on the outskirts of the canyon system, is rich in natural beauty and native history.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2024
  • This trail is on the outskirts of Palmdale and is so peaceful and usually so quiet, even though there is a highway nearby.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • His sister, Nancy, set off to see what had happened at the blighted house on the outskirts of Montgomery, Alabama.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Four weeks later, eight drones crashed into residential buildings on the outskirts of the city.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
  • Nearly thirty-four thousand Jews were shot at Babyn Yar, a giant ravine on the outskirts of the city, in just thirty-six hours in September, 1941.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023

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