Explore Outskirts through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like section. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Outskirts meaning
The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
Synonyms of Outskirts
Using Outskirts
- The main meaning on this page is: The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
- Useful related words include: section.
- In the example corpus, outskirts often appears in combinations such as: the outskirts, outskirts of, outskirts and.
Context around Outskirts
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 12 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Outskirts
- In this selection, "outskirts" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, southwestern stand out and add context to how "outskirts" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and its outskirts were also and at the outskirts of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "outskirts" sits close to words such as filters, hungarian and inflicted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with outskirts
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A farm on the outskirts of New Abbey has proven a hit with caravaners. (14 words)
Ancient discoveries have been unearthed by a team of archaeologists on the outskirts of Cockermouth. (15 words)
At Dei-Dei abattoir, located on the outskirts of Abuja, a thick smoke is billowing continuously. (16 words)
Another 4,500 people in the North Shore community of Sept-Iles and its outskirts were also forced from their homes due to a pair of wildfires burning north of the city, but no further evacuations are planned at the moment, Bonnardel said. (43 words)
Aamina**, a 65-year-old mother of four, lives in one of the camps on the outskirts of Baidoa, where thousands of people live in rows of makeshift tents covered with tarpaulin or whatever materials they can find. (38 words)
According to an earlier email from FBI Supervisory Special Agent Shayne Buchwald in Maryland, McGrath was wounded during "an agent-involved shooting" about 6:30 p.m. in a commercial area on the southwestern outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Aamina**, a 65-year-old mother of four, lives in one of the camps on the outskirts of Baidoa, where thousands of people live in rows of makeshift tents covered with tarpaulin or whatever materials they can find.
According to an earlier email from FBI Supervisory Special Agent Shayne Buchwald in Maryland, McGrath was wounded during "an agent-involved shooting" about 6:30 p.m. in a commercial area on the southwestern outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee.
According to fire brigade officials, the fire started at Bhajanlal Studios at Kaman in Vasai, on the outskirts of Mumbai, around Friday midnight.
According to police, the sleuths of the Pune City crime branch rescued the man from an abandoned tin shed on the outskirts of a village in Sangli on Monday morning.
A election campaign poster for far-right AfD candidate Robert Sesselmann is seen at a street at the outskirts of the small city of Sonneberg in the German federal state of Thuringia.
A farm on the outskirts of New Abbey has proven a hit with caravaners.
An 18-year-old girl reportedly died by suicide after she was allegedly abducted and raped in a moving car on the outskirts of Meerut Tuesday by a man from her neighbourhood.
Ancient discoveries have been unearthed by a team of archaeologists on the outskirts of Cockermouth.
Another 4,500 people in the North Shore community of Sept-Iles and its outskirts were also forced from their homes due to a pair of wildfires burning north of the city, but no further evacuations are planned at the moment, Bonnardel said.
A Russian delegate attends the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, February 24, 2023.
As a result of rocket fire by the Russians, one of the rockets hit a private house on the outskirts of Dnipro.
A senior police officer said that the police on Wednesday arrested Iranian Yakub Yazdanbakhsh and Bangladeshi national Shahin Mondal from the Aswani market area under Amatoli police station on the outskirts of Agartala.
A seven-bedroom home on the outskirts of Dilhorne is now on the market for £950,000.
Asmal drove her to a secluded area on the outskirts of Darwen where he then raped her.
A stretch of the Badaling Great Wall of China on the outskirts of Beijing on Oct. 6, 2020.
As well as its amphitheatre and grassy slopes, South Street Park has a more untamed area, where the trees, tall grass and pretty flowers provide a welcome wildlife haven on the outskirts of the city centre.
At an office on the outskirts of Kyiv, she told CTV News that her husband and two sons remain at their home in Winnipeg while she runs Finn Church Aid’s office.
At Dei-Dei abattoir, located on the outskirts of Abuja, a thick smoke is billowing continuously.
At Quinta dos Ingleses — a small forest area on the outskirts of Lisbon — about 40 tents have been set up.
At the time, there was only one published study on its active ingredient, satiereal, which was performed in 2010 by a French researcher at a low-profile pharmaceutical company on the outskirts of Toulouse.
Common combinations with outskirts
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the outskirts 185×
- outskirts of 181×
- outskirts and 3×
- city outskirts 3×
- its outskirts 2×