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How to use fringe in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Fringe means a decorative border. Example: “He lives on the fringe of London.”

Examples of fringe by meaning

nounA decorative border.

  • the fringe of a picture

nounA border or edging.

  • He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him.2020 March 5, Tom Lamont, “The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground”, in The Guardian

nounA marginal or peripheral part.

  • Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport

nounThose members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.

  • a fringe group of the party

nounThe periphery of an area, especially a town or city.

  • He lives on the fringe of London.
  • Moreover, although a number of lines penetrate to the fringes of the English Lake District, this is the only one which actually passes through it.1961 October, ""Voyageur"", “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 598

nounUsed attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.

  • All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 20

nounSynonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.

  • Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
  • She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “Chapter LXXXVIII”, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC
  • Fayne in the photograph had a fringe, hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.1981, Hilda Doolittle, HERmione, page 155

adjectiveOutside the mainstream.

  • So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe.2015 September 7, Holland Cotter, “Exhibitions Where Moral Force Trumps Market Forces”, in New York Times

More sentences with fringe

  • He’s not a fringe figure: he knows how to work the attention economy.2026 April 28, Arwa Mahdawi, “Is Tucker Carlson eyeing a 2028 presidential run?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry attention economy
  • We definitely did a panel on feminism together, maybe also a fringe event at a Tory conference.2024 September 23, Zoe Williams, “I bumped into Liz Truss at a school open day. It was super awks”, in The Guardian. From the entry awks
  • Her fringe was damp and uncrimped and sticking, like seaweed straggling on a rock, to her forehead.2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 112. From the entry uncrimped
  • The insurrectionist movement is mainstream, not simply confined to the political fringe.2022 January 6, Robert A. Pape, “The Jan. 6 Insurrectionists Aren’t Who You Think They Are”, in Foreign Policy, →ISSN, archived from the…. From the entry insurrectionist
  • Today, boogaloo has seeped out of the gaming community and found fertile ground in militant fringe movements.2020 January 10, Hannah Allam, “'Boogaloo' Is The New Far-Right Slang For Civil War”, in NPR, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2020. From the entry boogaloo
  • His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 134. From the entry ghostly
  • Veganism has gone from fringe to fashionable in a relatively short time.2018 December 6, Jessica Brown, “Thanks for the vegan idioms, Peta, but there are bigger fish to fry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry veganism
  • But establishment on the fringes of everyday practice doesn't mean lenticular photography is a failure.2015, Kim Timby, 3D and Animated Lenticular Photography: Between Utopia and Entertainment, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 248. From the entry lenticular
  • He was on the fringes of Test selection last year before a shoulder injury cruelled his chances.2014 April 1, The Sydney Morning Herald. From the entry cruel
  • Here, fringing reefs provide good shelter for ships and there is an important naval base at Makung.2011, Barbara Weightman, “Korea and Taiwan: Tigers Rising”, in Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East and Southeast Asia, 3rd…. From the entry Makung
  • In appearance he is a hairful gnome, born to ghost the fringes of rock and roll culture.2010, Matt O'Keefe, You Think You Hear, page 196. From the entry hairful
  • Medicine bundle containing birdskin, weaselskin; weaselskin headdress, buffalo saddle blanket, lightning painted horses, ermineskin fringe shirt.2010, Joachim Fromhold, The Western Cree (Pakisimotan Wi Iniwak), page 41. From the entry weaselskin
  • Trust me, we both can find fringe fanatics to prove the other side is nutso.2008, Becky Garrison, The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry nutso
  • The lowest zone over exposed, and the only at extreme low tides, is called the infralittoral fringe.2004, M.P. Singh, Environment and Pollution, page 159. From the entry infralittoral
  • Beyond was a tangle of undergrowth fringing a pocket of rainforest.2004, Wendy Jane Evans, The Diggings Are Silent, Interactive Press, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry wuffle
  • Fringe groups continue to publish hate literature, available in some L.A. religious bookstores.1991 September 9, Amy Kuebelbeck, “Under Fire? : Is anti-Catholic sentiment increasing? Some say yes and declare they’re not going to take…. From the entry anti-christ
  • On the fringes of the lawn, rope was skipped, soccer balls were kicked and Frisbees were thrown.1987, Mike McIntyre, CONCERT GRAND. From the entry accessoryless
  • Rainfall is scanty in Jochiang County on the fringe of the Takla Makan Desert in the south.1971 April 30, “Sinkiang's Small Hydroelectric Stations.”, in Peking Review, volume 14, number 18, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19…. From the entry Jochiang
  • Fringe, flaps and kilties will be integrated into boot designs, with much hardware.1966, Boot and Shoe Recorder: The Magazine of Fashion Footwear, page 56. From the entry kilty
  • The roadbed, much of it fringing Swansea Bay, has been given free to the local authorities.1960 February, “Swansea & Mumbles closure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95. From the entry roadbed
  • Especially if the fringe of an antimacassar lolled over the top and tickled your neck?1942, Emily Carr, “Mrs. Crane”, in The Book of Small. From the entry antimacassar
  • There emerged from the fringe of things, where she perpetually hovered, Mrs.1920, Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett. From the entry lulu
  • He began to pick at the fussy fringe on the arm of his chair.1919, Henry B. Fuller, chapter 4, in Bertram Cope's Year. From the entry pick at
  • Or which, in the case of the fandom’s more lunatic fringes, they believe that they are entitled to.2026 July 3, Marina Hyde, “The US turns 250 and Taylor Swift gets married. I think we all know which is a bigger deal”, in The Guardian…. From the entry people pleaser
  • Then, like side fringes, Smirnoff Ice and tights under denim shorts, smoking was suddenly passé – distasteful, even gross.2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry passé
  • “Deforestation has resulted in the migration of macaques to the forest fringes, alongside with the simiophagic mosquito vectors.”2021 January 25, Meizhi Irene Li, Diyar Mailepessov, Indra Vythilingam, Vernon Lee, Patrick Lam, Lee Ching Ng, Cheong Huat Tan…. From the entry simiophagic
  • An ultraradical Wahhabi fringe group was headed by Ayub Omarov (aka Ayub Astrakhansky), a Dagestani Avar from the Tsumadinskii raion.2015 [2010], Robert Bruce Ware, Enver Kisriev, “The Islamic Factor: Revival and Radicalism”, in Dagestan: Russian Hegemony and Islamic…. From the entry ultraradical
  • There were chenille fringes on evening dresses and the necklines of blouses, and crystal fringes on necklines and minicapes.2015 July 8, Vanessa Friedman, “Armani's Shock to the System”, in New York Times. From the entry minicape
  • So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivism champion of all things fringe.2015 September 7, Holland Cotter, “Exhibitions Where Moral Force Trumps Market Forces”, in New York Times. From the entry proactivism

Meaning of fringe

  1. noun A decorative border.
  2. noun A border or edging.
  3. noun A marginal or peripheral part.

Full definition of fringe

Questions about fringe in a sentence

How do you use fringe in a sentence?
Fringe is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “He lives on the fringe of London.”
What is a short sentence with fringe?
“the fringe of a picture”
What does fringe mean?
Fringe means a decorative border.

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