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outskirts English

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outskirts

The outskirts of a place are its edges, far from the centre. Many people commute into the business district from the outskirts of town.

outskirts

outlying areas (as of a city or town) they lived on the outskirts of Houston they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd

Synonyms outskirts synonyms

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Topics outskirts topics

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Simple sentences

Tom lives in a three-bedroom house on the outskirts of Boston.
The church sits on the outskirts of town.
New housing is built on the outskirts of the city.
Tom and Mary and their children all live together in a small house on the outskirts of Boston.
Tom lives in a small town on the outskirts of Boston.
Tom runs a small hobby farm on the outskirts of town where he keeps a few sheep and cattle.
Tom lives on the outskirts of the city.
I always park on the outskirts of town.
My house is on the outskirts of town.
I live on the outskirts of Boston.

Movie subtitles

What does? Pete has a property development on the outskirts.
At one of the out-of-the-way outskirts of Moscow.
They hid him in a freight car in the outskirts of Paris.
Driving up in my car, I lost my way on the outskirts of the city, and suddenly. the landscape seemed so familiar to me.
And on the outskirts of London on a summer night another man was lifting himself hand over hand climbing upward, ever onward toward his objective.
My father has a ranch on the outskirts of town.
We found the perfect house. On the outskirts of the city. with a garden.
On the outskirts of Rome.
Arthur castle, standing on the outskirts, and about to enter, the twilight zone.
Of course, this is only the outskirts of the marshes, as you might say. Once you get right into the heart of them. then to move as much us one step from the path is more then your life is worth.
Meanwhile, on the city outskirts, Arthur told Odile how he once met a fellow who walked this way.
On the outskirts of milano is a control tower at the beginning of the traffic complex.
From a tribe on the outskirts of Moscow.
At least we should try to get you to the outskirts.
We'll hit a joint on the outskirts.
They take this old house, here in the outskirts, and they hole up.
You take this house here in the outskirts and you hole up.
One of the great fortunes of the world began here on the outskirts of Tours in 17th-century France.
For, in just a moment, mr. Jackie rhoades, whose life has been given over to fighting adversaries, will find his most formidable opponent in a cheap hotel room that is, in reality, the outskirts of the twilight zone.
The time is now, the place is a little diner in ridgeview, ohio, and what this young couple doesn't realize is that this town happens to lie on the outskirts of the twilight zone.
By the 30th of October, the Soviet forces had withdrawn to the outskirts of the capital.
Of course, this is only the outskirts of the marshes, you might say.
Newhall. That's on the outskirts.
Well, then get us a place on the outskirts, one we can't hurt.
There's a factory on the outskirts of Hammelburg. Uh-huh. They used to make shoes.
Goldilocks to Papa Bear. New rocket assembly plant, outskirts Hammelburg.
They were hiding him in a freight car on the outskirts of Paris.
Troops rafts traveling to the outskirts of town. When they will hear my orders.
Yesterday I placed her in a hospital on the outskirts of the city.
That's on the outskirts.
On the western outskirts.
Here is an ultra-modern male workers' camp on the outskirts of Bikana.
I remember seeing a nest walking in spring, on the outskirts of New Orleans.
Just on the outskirts of Las Vegas. they have driven into a funnel.
We started off. Tsetso's house was on the outskirts of the city - a sort of a dwarfish one.
For now we know that is an area on the outskirts. Talk to him!
On the outskirts of town, madame, as you requested.
The fact that we live in the outskirts of the galaxy was discovered a long time ago towards the end of the First World War by a man named Harlow Shapley who was mapping the position of these clusters of stars.
We live in the outskirts the globular clusters are centered around the marvelous middle of the Milky Way galaxy.

News and current affairs

In democratic India, for example, it took eight years to rebuild Mumbai's airport, because courts forced the government to respect the rights of squatters on its outskirts.
The center of Paris and other French cities may be grand, but many immigrants from North Africa and elsewhere live in squalid ghettos on the outskirts.
Sabadet Totodet took the judge to a clearing on the outskirts of town where he was forced to dig graves for more than 500 fellow prisoners who died in custody.
Bin Qumu has a small paramilitary force training in the Bou Musafir forest on the outskirts of Derna. He insists that if the head of the boy scouts or the city's clan leaders asked him to disband the training camp, he would do so.
When they arrived, brown domes made of crisscrossed branches and layers of multicolored mats would appear like crowds of dappled beetles on the outskirts of town.
For the rest of the conversation, and on the trip to the outskirts of London that I also took with him, Blair talked and acted as if he had a full Prime Ministerial agenda on everything from global warming to the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
Last week, I visited an orphanage on the outskirts of the city, set up after the 2005 earthquake that killed an estimated 75,000 people.
Consider Katatura, a shantytown on the outskirts of Windhoek into which the former apartheid regime forced tens of thousands of blacks in the 1950's and 1960's.
More recently, Islam Atito, an engineering student at Cairo's Ain Shams University who supported the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was found dead in the desert on the outskirts of Cairo.
Indeed, in the 1830's, two Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville and Custine, went to the outskirts of civilization to describe the future superpower rivals, America and Russia.
Bin Qumu has a small paramilitary force training in the Bou Musafir forest on the outskirts of Derna.
It is ironic that, as rockets from Gaza reach the outskirts of Tel Aviv, those Israelis who celebrated the partition, and their descendants, do not see the importance of fulfilling the other half of the partition plan.

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