outskirts

How To Use outskirts In A Sentence

• Tanks often attacked the outskirts of the city in skirmishes with resistance fighters, adding to the chaos and unrest.
• Fashion outlets, also known as discount warehouse stores, are large shopping areas often located on a city's outskirts.
• Shortly after leaving the outskirts of Adonis the car slithered down a sloping piece of ground, teetered over a low bank, and splashed logily into water. The Past Through Tomorrow
• Planners are committed to developing the city's brownfield sites before granting permission to build on the rural outskirts.
• A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts. Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community
• Thousands of pounds worth of property have been stolen from properties on the outskirts of town in recent weeks.
• Huge towers grew into the sky, as the countryside gradually encroached on the city outskirts.
• The main roads remind me of the roads on the outskirts of huge cities in the USA, with their seemingly endless miles of fast food joints and lurid neon signs.
• Most of the victims had dwelt in the crowded slums that had grown up around the factory on the outskirts of the city. Times, Sunday Times
• More than 200 people gathered outside his home on the outskirts of Bolton as a steam-powered cavalcade flanked by police motorcycle outriders escorted him on his final journey.