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noun

fringe

the outside boundary or surface of something

In a sentence

Six example sentences with fringe, each labelled with its topic.

  • The hostel sits on the fringe of the old town, twenty minutes' walk from the square but half the price.

    Travel

  • Mangroves along the fringe of the lagoon take the first force of every storm before it reaches the villages inland.

    Environment

  • Those workers sit at the fringe of the labor market, hired for a week at a time and counted in no official survey.

    Economics

  • Keep the important faces away from the fringe of the frame, where the cheap lens goes soft and dark.

    Photography

  • Comets spend most of their orbit at the fringe of the solar system, far beyond the last planet.

    Science

  • He spent two seasons on the fringe of the rotation, warming up every night and playing only in blowouts.

    Basketball

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