outskirt
IPA: ˈaʊtskɝt
noun
- A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb.
verb
- (transitive) To surround as an outskirt.
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Examples of "outskirt" in Sentences
- The man took them to the outskirts of the city.
- The supernova ccurred in the outskirts of the nebula.
- The park is located on the western outskirts of the city.
- The district is in the northwestern outskirts of the town.
- The military cantonment lies on the outskirts of the city.
- It is a poor ward in the outskirts of the Pueblo of Guayama.
- The current building is located on the outskirts of the city.
- The new location was on the outskirts of the town of Mission.
- The elevation is the highest on the outskirts of the preserve.
- A desperate search for it begins in the library in the outskirts of the city.
- Whenever there is a free weekend, day that I don't have to be up early in the morning, I take off to my debris hut in the woods of the outskirt of the town.
- On Thursday morning, the Indonesian Anti-Terrorism Special Unit Densus 88 was reported to be in the middle of shoot-out with a small Islamic hardliner group at the outskirt of Solo, Central Java.
- Dita Alangkara/Associated Press Helpers and a balloonist, right, prepared a hot air balloon for flight during the first Indonesian Hot Air Balloon Adventure in Sentul in the outskirt of Jakarta on March 26.
- On a recent Monday night in a working-class outskirt of Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Malafaia told some 3,000 worshippers spilling out of the aisles of his Assembly of God church that Ms. Rousseff had switched her abortion stance.
- On Thursday, police say, 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira talked his way into his former elementary school in a working-class western outskirt of Rio de Janeiro and opened fire with at least one of two revolvers he carried.
- Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press A displaced child, whose family fled from the Khyber tribal region due to military operations, held onto her mother while waiting to register at the Jalozai camp on the outskirt of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday.
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