PERIPHERAL in a Sentence

Learn PERIPHERAL from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For PERIPHERAL, below is one of 5 sentences:
We lived, not in central London, but in one of those peripheral suburbs that spring up on the outskirts of a great city.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERIPHERAL
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peripheral
 a.  located in outer boundary; unimportant; auxiliary
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Example Sentence:
1  Companies are increasingly keen to contract out peripheral activities like training.
2  A figure came into my peripheral vision.
3  Use your peripheral vision widely when moving from place to place.
4  Freezing temperatures also constrict peripheral blood vessels, further stressing the heart.
5  We lived, not in central London, but in one of those peripheral suburbs that spring up on the outskirts of a great city.