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outskirt
[ out-skurt ]
noun
- Often outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like:
to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- Usually outskirts. the border or fringes of a specified quality, condition, or the like:
the outskirts of respectability.
Example Sentences
At one, at Woodgate Valley Park, on the outskirts of the city near its border with Worcestershire I witnessed a queue that was more than a mile long.
The Scottish government has committed to building a new prison to replace Barlinnie on the outskirts of Glasgow.
Worst affected are the city's outskirts as well as some of its poorest neighbourhoods.
On the outskirts of the town, Phil Scott knows exactly how devoted Fleming's fan base can be.
But on the outskirts of Delta, there is a cluster of steel businesses that have been here since the 1990s and which may be better placed in a new era of American protectionism.
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