Example sentences for: outskirts

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

  • On the southern outskirts of town on Highway 2 are the derricks and “grasshopper” pumps that have characterized Edmonton since the oil strike at the great well of Leduc Number 1 in 1947.

  • The Japan Railways Keihin-Tohoku line takes about 40 minutes from Tokyo to Sakuragi-cho Station in Yokohama; the faster shinkansen leaves you off at Shin-Yokohama, on the outskirts of the city.

  • The trip telescopes history, from the modern capital through the outskirts where donkey carts and cargo-carrying bicycles share the road, past farms where nothing seems to have changed for centuries, to a harsh mountain range where nearly one million workers walled in an empire.

  • Today Marken welcomes visitors but not their cars, which must be left in a large car park on the outskirts.

  • RER commuter trains can also take you rapidly to the outskirts, where two major attractions, Versailles and the Disneyland Paris Resort, are located.


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