Crossword-Solution: PERIPHERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Periphery | n. | The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface. |
| Periphery | n. | The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “PERIPHERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the outside boundary or surface of something | 1 answer |
| MOVING area around body | 1 answer |
| surrounding region | 2 answers |
| Outskirts | 4 answers |
| Outer boundary | 5 answers |
| Outer limits | 11 answers |
| Perimeter | 17 answers |
| Brink | 24 answers |
| Circumference | 28 answers |
| Fringe | 31 answers |
| frontier | 31 answers |
| Edging | 41 answers |
| Hem | 44 answers |
| Boundary | 46 answers |
| Confine | 58 answers |
| BORDER ___ | 58 answers |
| distance | 59 answers |
| CAMP ___ | 66 answers |
| Edge | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERIPHERY (5)
What hellish fate had led me to select from three possible avenues the two that were wrong? As the lazy current of the eddy carried me slowly about the periphery of the watery circle my boat twice touched the rocky side of the river in the dark recess beneath the cliff.
The females and young squatted in a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them ranged the adult males.
The original keep was there with its huge, buttressed Saxon towers whose mighty fifteen foot walls were pierced with stairways and vaulted chambers, lighted by embrasures which, mere slits in the outer periphery of the walls, spread to larger dimensions within, some even attaining the area of small triangular chambers.
The high inhuman note of the wind, the violence and continuity of its outpouring, and the fierce touch of it upon man’s whole periphery, accelerated the functions of the mind.
They fall into two divisions: one, the knight of the blue face and hollow paunch, whom Winter has gotten by the vitals; the other well lined with New-year’s fare, conscious of the touch of cold on his periphery, but stepping through it by the glow of his internal fires.
Quotes with PERIPHERY (3)
I had the dream again. I was leaning in the back corner of the elevator in my building looking down at the bundle of keys in my hand. Below my hand were the blurred outlines of my black leather lace-up boots and my frayed black jeans. There was ink all over my legs from the screen-printers in my shop. There was ink on the skin beneath the rips at my knee and my thigh where the rough edge of my work table had worn through... The detail was vivid, but there was an ethereal spar…
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all.
A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension. I was sorry of the man who, it seemed to me, was forced to hover about the edges of science. He was compelled to shiver endlessly in the outskirts, getting only feeble warmth from the distant sun of science- in-progress; while I, just beginning my research, was bathed in the heady …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1972–2020).