outskirts

Example Sentences

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The Lib Dems are hoping for gains in constituency seats across the Highlands and on the outskirts of Glasgow and Edinburgh, with perhaps a handful of list seats in other regions.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

This zesty country-pop flirtation was composed, per “In My Lifetime’s” notes, “in the back of a limo as we approached the outskirts of Paducah, Kentucky.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Hama lay on the outskirts of these cultural hubs.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

Politically independent, he is a descendant of the Crimean Tatars who once dominated the neighborhood alongside Albanians and Bosnians and others from “the outskirts of the Ottoman Empire.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Falling back all along the line, the French and British armies were forced into a retreat that would take them to the outskirts of Paris.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman