outskirts

Example Sentences

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Inside the long-shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles, bulletin boards, furniture and other remnants of a once active hospital remain, frozen in time.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

“It’s true that there’s a blockade against Cuba, but something good has to come out of all this,” said Iraida Ávila, who lives on the outskirts of Havana with her daughter, who has cystic fibrosis.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

On Thursday morning, on a dusty side street on the outskirts of Reggio Emilia, in an everyday kind of place, there were crowds lined up behind barriers, awaiting her arrival.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

A resident of San Miguel del Padron, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Havana, told AFP that people had protested the power cuts by banging pots and pans on Wednesday evening.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Bicycle Bill sat on the outskirts of the growing crowd.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya