How to Use outskirt in a Sentence

outskirt

noun
  • Left on the outskirts is Beth, who was once the top dog.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The market is in Rungis, a suburb on the outskirts of Paris.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The suspect lived in the outskirts of Villach and his house has been searched.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 15 Feb. 2025
  • That was the month IS seized large parts of Iraq, pushing all the way to the outskirts of Baghdad.
    — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The districts closest to downtown don't change at all, and most of the shifts are on the outskirts of the city.
    — Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
  • That address is for a small home on the dusty, northwest outskirts of the city.
    — Jason Pohl, azcentral, 13 Apr. 2018
  • In this case, the position is on the outskirts of the NCAA bubble.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The site is about a 40-mile drive from Penn Hills, the city on the outskirts of Pittsburgh where the child was last seen alive.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Even on the outskirts of town, near the shopping plaza and the megachurch, the GOP is winning lawns in a landslide.
    — David Litt, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The film Stand By Me has a quality of that—playing on the outskirts of town on the train tracks.
    — Chris Ritter, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2024
  • Unlike the Dodgers, the Angels are on the outskirts of the postseason chase.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
  • After some passes around the outskirts of the box, Forsberg cranked a shot from the half moon.
    — The Associated Press, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • Five or so cars were initially parked in the church's lot, with a few more lined up on the outskirts.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 12 Apr. 2020
  • And the school is literally in the middle of a desert, on the outskirts of Lima.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Dunford spoke with the San Antonio Express-News at the farm on the outskirts of the city.
    — Megan Rodriguez, ExpressNews.com, 8 July 2019
  • The shooting occurred on the outskirts of the city of Orebro, about 125 miles west of Stockholm.
    — Stefanie Dazio, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
  • There, on the outskirts of the Mojave desert, 400 giant mirrors, each the size of a large flatscreen TV, twitch in the sunlight.
    — Wired, 22 Nov. 2019
  • By the third hour in a field on the outskirts of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, my hair had taken on the hue of the dust that filled the air in roaming clouds.
    — New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The fighting has largely been confined to the city's outskirts.
    — Ahmed Al-Haj, Fox News, 4 July 2018
  • Want to book a palatial villa on the outskirts of Florence and ride horses through the foothills of Italy?
    — Thessaly La Force, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The deadliest of the dozens of assaults so far were on the outskirts of Kunduz in the north in the early hours of Wednesday.
    — Najim Rahim, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The two met at the Prime Minister’s residence on the outskirts of Madrid.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2020
  • In 2021, my husband Evan and I sold our house and urban farm on the outskirts of New Orleans.
    — Dani Benton, Contributor, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Boys wait for bread at a bakery in Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Pictured, an aerial shot of a plant on the outskirts of Shanghai, Jan. 12.
    — Lingling Wei, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2019
  • In summer 2017, the unit moved to the outskirts of Raqqah, capital of Islamic State’s caliphate, for the start of a siege.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • Slowthai grew up on the outskirts of Northampton, a town about 60 miles northwest of London.
    — Tara Mahadevan, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • But there's a lot more to this charming town on the outskirts of the Sumter National Forest.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 24 June 2024
  • The grave was found on the outskirts of Linköping, a city in southern Sweden, in fall 2022, though the find was unknown until last month.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2025
  • Some suburbs and areas on the outskirts of the city are becoming vibrant again, its markets filling with traders selling groceries.
    — Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 16 May 2025

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