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"Fringe" in a Sentence (33 examples)
I recommend putting up your hair so your fringe doesn't get on your forehead.
The job comes with a lot of fringe benefits.
George Eliot is subtly subversive: there are have-nots on every fringe, and her women collaborate in exquisitely detailed mutual oppression.
I love the fringe on your coat.
A half moon broke through the rifts of racing clouds. In its cold light I saw beyond the trees a broken fringe of rocks and the long, low curve of the melancholy moor.
She cut her fringe in a blunt style.
The biggest problem in his life? “The inflation rate,” he said in a recent interview beneath the grove of coconut trees that fringe the lily pond where his cows drink and bathe.
Until recently the Greens were seen as insignificant, impractical fringe players, but as climate change and environmentalism are increasingly taking center stage in Europe, with voters placing climate action high on their list of political priorities, that’s starting to change.
Cassandrax was from a fringe sector of the galaxy, as her accent of Galactique revealed.
Free lollipops are a fringe benefit for children that visit Dr. Smith's clinic.
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the fringe of a picture
The walls were hung with blue silk, edged with silver fringe; and the closely-drawn blue velvet curtains swept the ground.
He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him.
the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
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.
About an hour later, the two were sitting at a comparatively isolated table in a restaurant called Sickler’s, downtown, a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college—the same students, more or less, who, had they been Yale or Harvard men, might rather too casually have steered their dates away from Mory’s or Cronin’s.
a fringe group of the party
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.
All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.
Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.
Fayne in the photograph had a fringe, hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.
Ingeborg knew she wasn′t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she′d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn′t either. “No.” Astrid′s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
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So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe.
[Y]onder cloud / That rises upward always higher, / And onward drags a labouring breast, / And topples round the dreary west, / A looming bastion fringed with fire.
Presently she saw the King's palace. Pillars of ice held up the roof fringed with icicles, which would have sparkled splendidly if there had been any sun.
Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.
The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.
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