outskirt
Example Sentences
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Whereas many of the new arrivals are women and children, the vast majority of refugees and migrants who have been stuck in the outskirt camps are young men from the Middle East and North Africa.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022
Eyewitnesses told Reuters the rioters included young men from Honiara's outskirt settlements which have no running water.
From Reuters ● Nov. 29, 2021
Earlier this month, Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello slapped a sticker on his acoustic guitar that declared his native Ukraine, “not an outskirt but a center.”
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2014
In Cambodia, we're seeing more road crashes in outskirt areas, where there are more trucks and speeding.
From Time ● Apr. 14, 2011
I connected the two lines and the caller immediately began making plans for the rendezvous of two regiments, a clandestine operation to outskirt the German units near the north of France.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
