outskirt

Example Sentences

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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

To the west lies the outskirts of Death Valley National Park; to the east, millions of acres of public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management — acreage collectively owned by all of us.

From Los Angeles Times

In a dusty hospital basement on the outskirts of London, over 100 years of medical history lines the shelves, neatly arranged in row after row of cardboard specimen boxes.

From Barron's

He said they were sleeping in a shed on the outskirts of the village where they usually spend nights to guard their livestock.

From BBC