How to Use periphery in a Sentence

periphery

noun

• Episode 8 keeps its edge on the periphery.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
• There were African flags strung on the periphery of the room.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024
• Jessie Baylin has been on the periphery of fame for more than half her life.
  — Sarah Grant, SPIN, 27 Sep. 2022
• But the peripheries of the roster have seen some changes.
  — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
• Been on the periphery a little bit.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Police were nearby on the periphery of the area but stayed out of the block.
  — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 22 June 2020
• Playing him on the left leaves him on the periphery too often.
  — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
• There are more chairs around the periphery of the room and all of the monitors.
  — Maryalice Parks, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• The actual game, none of this stuff on the periphery that needs to be cleaned up.
  — Brendan Marks, charlotteobserver, 14 Mar. 2018
• In people, all this work is much more advanced out at the periphery than in the brain.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
• Many arts groups have moved these kinds of programs from the periphery to their core mission.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 7 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• At some point, a car or a truck flashes in the center and a road sign shows up on the periphery.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 18 Feb. 2026
• New xylem grow in rings at the periphery of the trunk just behind the bark, adding girth so the tree can get taller.
  — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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 artists here are grappling with what comes in between and after and on the periphery.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
• Armstrong prefers to stay at the periphery of the nights out and downtime hangs with the actors.
  — Hunter Harris, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
• The other seven stores are scattered around the periphery of the city.
  — Laura A. Reese, The Conversation, 25 June 2024
• As the kids walked around the periphery, they were invited to pluck a few mint leaves and have a nibble.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
• Through the goggles, the terrain is an eerie green, the periphery blurred but the center sharp.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
• Dancing around the periphery, staying sharp in case a window opened up.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 6 June 2026
• Unlike rods that slide, these drums sit on the periphery of the core and feature two distinct sides.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
• And don't forget about some of the contenders hanging around the periphery.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• All the fruits and vegetables, fresh meat, fish and low fat dairy can be found on the periphery of the grocery store.
  — Rebecca Drudi, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2017