How to Use periphery in a Sentence

periphery

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  • There were African flags strung on the periphery of the room.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Williams is still viewed as a prospect on the periphery.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 17 June 2022
  • There are more chairs around the periphery of the room and all of the monitors.
    — Maryalice Parks, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • On the east end, drug users sleep on the grass while dealers mix with the crowd around the periphery.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
  • Food is just steps away at food carts on the periphery.
    — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Each of those books takes a world event and tells the story of it through the eyes of a child who is on the periphery.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Jessie Baylin has been on the periphery of fame for more than half her life.
    — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Three players were on the periphery of pro football in the fall of 2023.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • La Russa watched the Red Sox make the playoff run in 2018 from the periphery.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Armstrong prefers to stay at the periphery of the nights out and downtime hangs with the actors.
    — Hunter Harris, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
  • In Civil War, Zemo was pulling the strings off in the periphery.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In people, all this work is much more advanced out at the periphery than in the brain.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
  • On darker skin tones, the bumps may be a dark shade of red or light purple around the periphery.
    — Mona Gohara, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The other seven stores are scattered around the periphery of the city.
    — Laura A. Reese, The Conversation, 25 June 2024
  • At the periphery of the proceedings, Martens cleared his throat and began to pace.
    — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Street food culture came from there, and the idea of the one-stall special, which evolved around the periphery of temples.
    — Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In the early 1950s, Brunn moved from the periphery of her brother’s career to the center of her own.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • In freedom, as in bondage, Tilghman Davis lived on the periphery of wealth.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • For the most part, this reality is on the periphery and not thrust in our face.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Mar. 2022
  • But a scorching stretch has vaulted them past the Stars and on the periphery of the playoff picture.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • If life lingers on the peripheries of our world, maybe there’s a chance that life exists elsewhere in the universe.
    — quantamagazine.org, 26 Sep. 2024
  • That is, unless the person in Lane 9 is leading and has no one in her periphery.
    — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Start with the middle of the face and rub the sunscreen out towards the periphery, making sure to get into the hairline.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • On this album, there is a nice little group of people who have been on the periphery of our projects for years.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Oksana had fled her home on the city’s periphery for a friend’s home closer in on Feb. 24, the first day of the war, to escape the bombing on the outskirts.
    — Loveday Morris, Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Jara cut a frustrated figure for most of the night, though, and was largely on the game’s periphery.
    — Dallas News, 30 May 2021
  • The plantains are cut like fries, which to me aren’t as effective as slices, but that’s periphery.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 10 June 2022
  • Atop the heat dome is the jet stream, marking the southern periphery of cooler weather.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
  • For many years, Shaw worked on the periphery of Hollywood.
    — Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Sheet masks sit on the periphery of an essential skin care routine: Your face sunscreen, moisturizer, and retinol products are going to pack the most benefits in the long run.
    — Claire Sullivan, WWD, 4 Oct. 2024

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