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Example sentences for "outskirts"

Lexicographically close words:
outside; outsider; outsiders; outsides; outskirt; outspake; outspan; outspanned; outspanning; outspeed
  1. The barbarians themselves on the outskirts of his dominions were restrained by respect for a character so pure and power so wisely used.

  2. The Residency, I found upon inquiry, was two miles away, in the outskirts of the town.

  3. On and on she hurried, until she reached the tranquil outskirts and lingered before the gate of one of the cemeteries.

  4. We came up to an old church, that looks like a bird's-nest amongst the trees, and stands at the outskirts of the city.

  5. All night long the fight raged on the outskirts of the town, and just as the morning was breaking the Cubans made a triumphal entry.

  6. Late in the month they advanced to the outskirts of Santiago, destroying all plantations which lay along the line of march, and defeated the Volunteers in an unimportant engagement.

  7. Nuevitas was well garrisoned, and therefore the patriots confined their operations to a region sufficiently remote from the outskirts of the town, so that reprisals would be slow and difficult.

  8. De tunnels under de church had been used for carrying reinforcements and food to de army at de outskirts of de city.

  9. The Frank and his attendants reached the outskirts of the village, and headed naturally for the spring.

  10. One afternoon, when I was riding round the bay from Akka towards the foot of Carmel, supposing Suleymân to be a hundred miles away, I came upon a group of tourists by the river Kishon, on the outskirts of the palm grove.

  11. My modest steed was fired to emulation, and, once beyond the outskirts of Jerusalem, we tore away.

  12. We passed well on the outskirts of the gaping crowd and found ourselves on the bridge: the dark bridge, with the river flowing beneath, the houses rising in a great impenetrable mass, and the distant chestnut-roasters at their demon work.

  13. We had reached the outskirts of the little town and dismissed the conveyance, of which we had had more than enough.

  14. To the people it was, indeed, a bitter disappointment to be compelled to give up the church edifices, and to resort for public service to the outskirts of the town.

  15. Illustration: Marine Corps Historical Collection A lone member of the 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division patrolling through the outskirts of Tinian Town, pauses at a torii of a Shinto shrine.

  16. The miners' meeting was held the following day on the outskirts of the town.

  17. The Naples "express" rolled round the outskirts of the town.

  18. Another river of lava reached the outskirts of Torre del Greco, and a third stopped at the cemetery of Torre Annunziata.

  19. From the outskirts of the city it rose gradually, its sides grown thick with rich grass, and dotted here and there with spreading shrubbery and drooping trees.

  20. All this time Jesus has been keeping as much out of the way of His ungrateful countrymen as the limits of His commission would permit, hovering, as it were, around the northern outskirts of the land.

  21. The armies of the two Crown Princes were now at the outskirts of Paris.

  22. Late on the afternoon of the following day Michael walked through the gustiness of a swift-closing summer toward St. Bartholomew's, where it stood facing a stretch of sandy heather and twisted pine trees on the outskirts of Bournemouth.

  23. Just when they were nearing the outskirts of Branksome, Kathleen dismounted suddenly and said: "I suppose you'll be surprized when I tell you I'm engaged to be married?

  24. Land in the outskirts is rapidly rising in value, and great credit is due to the State of Mendoza, which is planning the extensions on a very handsome scale.

  25. The boy nodded, and without a word crept away, wriggling down a narrow passage between the shed and the next house towards the outskirts of the village.

  26. At the outskirts of the camp Wang Shih dismissed his men, proceeding alone with Jack to the tent.

  27. Then suddenly a shower of sweetmeats fell on the outskirts of the crowd, among the smallest of the children.

  28. So he sent his rough-riders after him, and they proceeded at a rapid pace, and came up with him on the outskirts of Williamsburg, where General Johnston prepared to fight rather than come to breakfast.

  29. In short, it is asserted that these generals had been short of rations for some days, and were very hungry when they reached the outskirts of Washington.

  30. Those that are most in earnest, draw most together; those that are on the outskirts have only to do nothing, and they are free of us.

  31. At that instant there suddenly came forward from the doorway of a tent on the outskirts of the crowd a stalwart woman, with a strong face and a self-reliant manner.

  32. Then they were lifted to the tall chimneys rising at two or three points on the outskirts of Manitou.

  33. Justus, self-exiled from the mountains, tramped the valley roads, hardly caring whither, and drifted finally to the outskirts of one of the large manufacturing towns of Tennessee.

  34. Down the red-clay slopes of the outskirts of the town "John Barleycorn" thunders with a train of horsemen at his heels.

  35. Although I have not personally been through any of that country, I have been on the very outskirts and have lived for a long time among the people there.

  36. Two blushing damsels, maids goodly to look upon, gave me the sweetest of smiles as I strode across the bodies of some fat pigs which roamed at large in the outskirts of the city, the only remembrance I have to mar the cleanliness of the place.

  37. On the 26th Haig struck again with similar results: Zonnebeke was captured, the woods cleared up to the outskirts of Reutel, and another advance made on the Menin road.

  38. The outskirts of La Boisselle and Fricourt were reached; Mametz was taken, and also Montauban by the most striking advance of the day.

  39. The troops advanced with the utmost dash and determination, and detachments got far ahead of the line into Pendant copse, Thiepval, the Schwaben redoubt, and even the outskirts of Grandcourt.

  40. The front extended from the La Bassée Canal to the outskirts of Lens, and as in Champagne the attack on 25 September was preceded by an intense bombardment which destroyed the first German trenches and wire-entanglements.

  41. On the 27th the Belgians and French pushed on as far as the Blankaart Lake and the Houthulst Forest, taking Luyghem, Merckem, Kippe, and Aschoop, and on the 30th the Canadians forced their way into the outskirts of Passchendaele.

  42. The German centre at Thiepval was thus outflanked on both sides; it gave way on the 24th, and Byng pushed on to the outskirts of Bapaume.

  43. On the 7th Bavai was captured, and Condé during the following night; on the 8th our troops were twelve miles east of Landrecies in Avesnes and on the outskirts of Maubeuge, which fell on the 9th.

  44. Meanwhile the Third Army captured Masnières and penetrated into the western outskirts of Cambrai while the Canadians threatened to outflank it on the north.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outskirts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambit; antipodes; barrio; border; borderland; borough; burg; circle; circuit; circumference; circumscription; circumstances; city; compass; confines; context; coordinates; core; downtown; entourage; environs; fringe; frontier; habitat; limits; march; metropolis; midtown; milieu; municipality; neighborhood; nowhere; outline; outpost; outskirts; pale; parameter; perimeter; periphery; pole; polis; precincts; purlieu; purlieus; situation; skirt; slum; sticks; suburb; suburbs; surroundings; tenderloin; township; uptown; verge; vicinity