outskirts

Example Sentences

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Camille starts messing with the radio herself as we reach the outskirts of Chicago.

From Literature

As he reached the outskirts of the village, he thought about what Val had said.

From Literature

On the side of a highway on the outskirts of Havana, vendors sell bags of charcoal and makeshift braziers, some fashioned from old washing machine drums.

From Barron's

Whitehall, meanwhile, says he grew up in the “British equivalent of Hinkley Hills” in a town called Putney, on the outskirts of London.

From Los Angeles Times

Like Harry, both Beatrice and Eugenie have now found themselves on the outskirts of the family.

From BBC