fringes

Example Sentences

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Hunger drove some to the fringes of human behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Some of the nation’s priciest real estate often means growth gets pushed out to metro Boston’s fringes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

We’re seeing the fringes of electronic music rise, and very heavy rock music rise.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

They took place on the fringes of the Malian capital Bamako and in several towns and cities across the sprawling Sahel nation.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

It is now very clear that we live some 30,000 light-years from the galactic core, on the fringes of a spiral arm, where the local density of stars is relatively sparse.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan