How to Use on the fringe(s) in a Sentence

on the fringe(s)

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  • Bonucci had been, in truth, on the fringes of the Juve first team.
    — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • On the first drive of the second half, the Bengals had 3rd and 13 on the fringe of field goal range.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Gospel house at the time existed on the fringes of club land.
    — Cliff Joannou, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
  • Hare was later found on the fringe road around mile post 312.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • His garnet cap was lying on the fringe near the 17th green.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2024
  • When the season ended, De La Cruz wasn’t even on the fringe of the Reds’ top-30 prospect list.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 6 June 2023
  • Watanabe’s journey is the kind of tale that can only be found on the fringes of the Olympics.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 29 July 2021
  • With that, it's been tough for drivers on the fringe of the sport -- even those with budgets -- to find a ride.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Carlos Vela's kick bounced out to Kellyn Acosta on the fringes of the 18-yard box.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Louisville is, without question, far out on the fringe.
    — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Penguins nesting on the fringes of the colony had longer, deeper sleeps than those in the middle.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Seattle was on the fringes of being in the AL wild-card race after the Aug. 1 setback to Boston.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
  • People on the fringes of the economy can end up homeless.
    — Daryl James, Orange County Register, 1 May 2024
  • Two men in their 20s rested in a shelter on the fringes of Agadez one recent morning.
    — Elian Peltier Carmen Abd Ali, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Because these are not comments from people on the fringe.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2022
  • On top of that, their food was already on the fringes by virtue of being vegan.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2020
  • Players like Brown and Terry Taylor appear to be more on the fringe.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The film was viewed more than 2 million times on Twitter, and many more posts linked to it on the fringe video platform Rumble.
    — WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Notions that would have once been seen as being on the fringe, such as Mr. Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, are mainstream.
    — Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • That would suggest that Prescott merely hovers on the fringe of being good enough to lead his team to a Super Bowl.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
  • The story begins more than 5,000 years ago, in the thriving city of Susa, on the fringe of the great Mesopotamian plain and the edge of the vast Iranian plateau that rises to the east.
    — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Today, Thompson said, Jamaican food remains on the fringes of the British dining scene.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Most researchers who study the origins of eukaryotes might not agree with him; some still describe it as an idea on the fringe.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Van den Akker even went on to find his protégé space on the fringes of the apparel district, telling him not to worry about the overhead.
    — Tonya Blazio-Licorish, WWD, 19 Aug. 2024
  • People gravitate to it, leaving more open space on the fringes for former lawn darters like me.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
  • But Presser remains, at core, a bit player on the fringes of the generative AI boom.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • She was born in the 1890s and, like most of the Osage of her time, went from living on the fringe of survival to fabulous wealth from their lands and minerals.
    — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But his story is only one in a yarn woven with the consequences of crime lords, life on the fringe, and the resilience of the human spirit.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
  • The relatively few that opened their doors were on the fringes of the city, mostly clustered on its northern and western sides.
    — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • The team’s position on the fringes of the wild card race has brought out the version of Ohtani that dominated the World Baseball Classic this year.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023

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