Fringes

Their way of life and distance from Iraq's cities have kept them on the fringes of society.

Weeds and flowers spring from its massy arches and its circling seats, and vines hang their fringes from its lofty walls.

“Fisherman,” ends the ballad, “have you seen the daughter of the sea combing her golden hair in the midday sun at the fringes of the beach?”

He lives on the fringes of Algiers.

Bad siblings are like fringes' wires; if you stretch them too much, they break; if you leave them as they are, they will intertwine.

Yanni lived on the fringes of society.

Drawn by some strange force, from the unfathomable depths below, eerie shapes sought the surface, blinking glassily at the unfamiliar glare they had exchanged for their native gloom—uncouth creatures bedight with tasselled fringes like weed-growths waving around them, fathom-long, medusae with coloured spots like eyes clustering all over their transparent substance, wriggling worm-like forms of such elusive matter that the smallest exposure to the sun melted them, and they were not.

The Romans patrolled the fringes of the Sahara Desert.