OUTSKIRT in a Sentence
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29 example sentences for OUTSKIRT, such as:
1. She forgot him as she tramped the outskirts of town.
2. Kate's house was on the western outskirts of the town.
3. My room is a wretched, horrid one in the outskirts of the town.
4. On the outskirts of the capital of the ancient kingdom is Yangdong Village.
5. Besides it a handicrafts and local fruit process exhibition show also arranged in outskirt of cattle show.
2. Kate's house was on the western outskirts of the town.
3. My room is a wretched, horrid one in the outskirts of the town.
4. On the outskirts of the capital of the ancient kingdom is Yangdong Village.
5. Besides it a handicrafts and local fruit process exhibition show also arranged in outskirt of cattle show.
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Meanings and Examples of OUTSKIRT
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outskirt
n. part or region remote from a central district, as of a city or town; fringe; outer border
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 On the outskirts of town were the remount depots where horses and mules milled about in large corrals, and along side streets were the hospitals.
2 There was a movement on the outskirts of the crowd and those on foot gave way as Rhett Butler carefully edged his horse toward Aunt Pitty's carriage.
3 The houses on the outskirts were dusky old red mansions with wooden frills, or gaunt frame shelters like grocery boxes, or new bungalows with concrete foundations imitating stone.
4 She forgot him as she tramped the outskirts of town.
5 There were three courts: one belonging to Harry Haydock, one to the cottages at the lake, and one, a rough field on the outskirts, laid out by a defunct tennis association.
6 As is customary in those cases, the boats at once separated, each making for some one lone whale on the outskirts of the shoal.
7 I had always lived with my grandmother on the outskirts of the plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women.
8 She stopped in the outskirts of the town, where she had noticed trunks for sale, and purchased a handsome one.
9 The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening.
10 My room is a wretched, horrid one in the outskirts of the town.
11 The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and retreated as a disorderly crowd.
12 But at that moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse.
13 This detachment halted at the outskirts of a forest, on the path leading from the village of Stromilova to Dmitrovsk.
14 Before they had ridden to the outskirts of the forest Petya had considered he must carry out his instructions strictly and return at once.
15 She had reached the outskirts of the city when she found the road blocked by a great drove of cattle, driven by a half-dozen wild-looking herdsmen from the plains.
Example Sentence:
1 Besides it a handicrafts and local fruit process exhibition show also arranged in outskirt of cattle show.
2 We lived, not in central London, but in one of those peripheral suburbs that spring up on the outskirts of a great city.
3 On the outskirts of the capital of the ancient kingdom is Yangdong Village.
4 This talented ecclesiastic is also responsible for restoration of the Church in Tlalpan, on the outskirts of the Federal District.
5 In 1976 the suppression of an uprising in Soweto, a black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, ushered in sanctions and boycotts, crimping South Africa's economy.
6 Kate's house was on the western outskirts of the town.