Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• May 17, 2009 ... In particular I'm interested to know whether both prepositions can be used in the following sentence. A shopping mall on/in the outskirts serves ...
• Some people like to live downtown. Others prefer the open spaces of the suburbs . But if you live in between the two, you are in the outskirts, the place where the ...
• Aug 26, 2011 ... 1. Which of the following sentences is correct, and why? I bought a house in the outskirts of the city. I bought a house on the outskirts of the city.
• After my parents made aliya, my father served as rabbi of Shikun Vatikin in the outskirts of Netanya, Israel. End the Chief Rabbinate's Monopoly Rabbi Avi Weiss  ...

• You may wonder why "in the suburbs" uses the preposition in and "on the outskirts" uses the preposition on. The most helpful way to think about this is that a ...
• Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt. 2. Usually ...
• Aug 26, 2011 ... As Martha's NGram shows, on the outskirts is the prevailing choice between the two. Why should this be? Well IMO it is down to people's ...
• “they lived on the outskirts of Houston”. “they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd ”. Type of: section. a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area ...