outskirt

Example Sentences

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Much of Honiara’s Chinatown area was destroyed during the unrest that followed, involving young men from Honiara’s outskirt settlements which have no running water.

From Reuters • Nov. 29, 2021

Poor of money and spirit, the men and women cordoned into this social outskirt grow violent and defensive, resulting in gripping episodes of unforced irony.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2019

Earlier this month, Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello slapped a sticker on his acoustic guitar that declared his native Ukraine, “not an outskirt but a center.”

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2014

In Cambodia, we're seeing more road crashes in outskirt areas, where there are more trucks and speeding.

From Time • Apr. 14, 2011

I connected the two lines and the caller immediately began making plans for the rendezvous of two regiments, a clandestine operation to outskirt the German units near the north of France.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse