How to use "outskirts" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "outskirts" in popular movie and book plots

  • He lives on the outskirts of town, attempting to create order in his life.  - Sula (novel)
  • Manson's body is found at the outskirts of the base.  - Battlezone II: Combat Commander
  • However, this occurs on the outskirts of the city west of the Schuylkill River, and none of the government buildings are affected.  - Settling Accounts
  • Sethe is a former slave living on the outskirts of Cincinnati shortly after the Civil War.  - Beloved (film)
  • On the outskirts of the massacre, Jack is attacked by Shadow, the Cheyenne brave who saved him as a child but now does not recognize him.  - Little Big Man (film)
  • At this point they flee the pitchfork-carrying mob and run for the outskirts of town.  - The Vile Village
  • Aillas leads another escape, and after a series of adventures, finds himself on the southern outskirts of Avallon, capital city of Dahaut.  - Lyonesse Trilogy
  • On the outskirts of a small town there is a rock formation called Witch Mountain rumored to possess mysterious powers.  - Escape to Witch Mountain (1995 film)
  • Timon is a social outcast in his meerkat colony on the outskirts of the pridelands.  - The Lion King 1½
  • A group of tanuki are threatened by a gigantic suburban development project called New Tama, in the Tama Hills on the outskirts of Tokyo.  - Pom Poko
  • However, the plague of 1665 forces them apart: Newton returns to his family manor and Daniel to the outskirts of London.  - Quicksilver (novel)
  • From the confines of his heavily guarded villa on the outskirts of town, Moco sends a large group of hitmen to kill Azul.  - El Mariachi
  • A second-rate boarding school on the outskirts of Paris is run by the tyrannical and mean Michel Delassalle (Meurisse).  - Les Diaboliques (film)
  • While the boy walks toward the outskirts of town immediately following this, he sees someone putting a book in a trashcan.  - Sounder
  • Kinnie (James Whitmore), the men are ordered to dig in on the outskirts of town.  - Battleground (film)
  • Gisaku refuses to abandon his mill on the outskirts of the village and perishes with his family, who tried to save him.  - Seven Samurai

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