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Example sentences for: outskirts

How can you use “outskirts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Citizens of the capital of St. John’s are “townees,” those on the outskirts “bay-men,” and the towns beyond are known as “outports.”
They live in separate hamlets or on city outskirts: 400,000 in Tokyo and an estimated 3 million throughout the country.
There is often a strong smell from the oil pumps on the resort’s outskirts.
A sign pointing down a side road in the southern outskirts of Artà says simply “Talaiot,” but it leads to one of Mallorca’s most important Megalithic settlements, Ses Paisses.
The Tropicana in Santiago de Cuba (Autopista Nacional km 1.5, with signs from Plaza de la Revolución; Tel. 4-3036) fills an enormous, recently constructed complex on the city’s northern outskirts.