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How to use purlieus in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word purlieus? Here are some examples.

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To spend a theater-going weekend or so in these charming purlieus is a warmly recommended experience.
They have made the big names look bland and left them languishing in the purlieus of the department store.
On the way, she casts what sounds like a remarkably forgiving eye over the city's wonkier-looking purlieus.
One of the more enjoyable moments of a Scottish Cup final is that hour or so before kick-off when you take a gentle stroll around the purlieus of Hampden Park.
But now here it is, minus its mordant political context, hugely enlarged in the sterile purlieus of the Turner prize 2016 show.
And if a professional sportsman has difficulty in rebuilding his or her life, post-misdemeanour, then consider the problems that apply in more elevated purlieus.
A bathing suit, a lampshade, six evening coats and a pair of chevron-striped shoes edged with gleaming silver leather – never have such creations appeared in the high-art purlieus of Tate Modern before.
Examples from Classical Literature
But while he sneaked in the purlieus of the city several of his 'longshore friends passed him without a second look.
But out of the purlieus of this netherworld strange beings issue when the shades of evening fall.
Suburbs were sprouting, almost daily, from the mould of the market-gardens in the purlieus.
It was Dare, whom he had supposed to be a thousand miles off, hanging about the purlieus of Markton.
All the arts learned in the prisons and purlieus of New York were put into exercise.
That evening found Selwood, quietly and unassumingly attired, examining the purlieus of Soho.
The office, and all the purlieus of the office, were occupied by a dense crowd.
Beside it even the purlieus of Rome sink into insignificance.
But she had no proof of this, and her instinct in the circumstances was to avoid its purlieus.
It is in the purlieus of the Law Courts and very hard to find.
I do not speak of card-playing about the purlieus of Piccadilly.
Crawford, prowling in the purlieus of society, had seen Miss Castle.
The purlieus of the camp were at this period anything but safe.
He told me he was going to raise a battery in the purlieus of Richmond.
What I saw their bravest and their fairest do last night, the lowest multitude that could be scraped up out of the purlieus of Christendom would blush to do, I think.
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