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.

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 Meanings and Examples of OUTSKIRT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  She forgot him as she tramped the outskirts of town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
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.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  She stopped in the outskirts of the town, where she had noticed trunks for sale, and purchased a handsome one.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  My room is a wretched, horrid one in the outskirts of the town.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: I
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.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
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.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
13  This detachment halted at the outskirts of a forest, on the path leading from the village of Stromilova to Dmitrovsk.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER VI
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.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII
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.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
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.