How to Use periphery in a Sentence

periphery

noun

• 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
• The bird did not move even as the rest of the covey wavered at the periphery.
  — Author: Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Police were nearby on the periphery of the area but stayed out of the block.
  — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 22 June 2020
• 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
• The list doesn't include the food court and spots on the periphery such as Paula Deen's and Olive Garden.
  — Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 27 Nov. 2024
• The fashion world has more or less agreed with the Lebowitzes of the world, shunting shorts to the periphery of style.
  — Samuel Hine, GQ, 2 July 2018
• Armstrong prefers to stay at the periphery of the nights out and downtime hangs with the actors.
  — Hunter Harris, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
• Dak Prescott and Philip Rivers are lurking in the periphery.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• 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
• That’s because the kelp canopy on the periphery of their range had been devoured by sea urchins.
  — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The artists here are grappling with what comes in between and after and on the periphery.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
• 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
• The name Lamplighter has been lingering in the periphery ever since the very first episode of The Boys.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• 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
• And we were camped in the periphery, far from Center Camp, which had a ride share center.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 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
• The driving narrative question of who is on the periphery was built pretty early.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
• Nowhere is this dynamic more evident than in Syria, where years of war have weakened relations between the country’s center and its periphery and given rise to a variety of local rulers.
  — Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025