What is "perimeters"

Usage examples of "perimeters".

The dim shapes that flitted around the perimeters were gunned down by expert rifle fire from the Rebels.

At once she felt a curious, mood-wrenching sensation, the dark oppression of entering a time warp of evil-the perimeters Darius had set around the camp to keep others out.

We hide these all around the perimeters of University Camp and hopefully anybody trying to sneak up on us will set one off.

You sent them out without consulting me, while you knew I was busy reinforcing the perimeters near the library.

To be sure, I suspected that he, or his informants, would not be likely to discriminate nicely between complete and selective surveillance, between closed patterns, such as manned perimeters, and random patrols, or even between Cosian regulars and mercenaries.

They were standing close to the summit of a hill, a quarter of a mile from the perimeters of a sprawling shantytown, from which a din of activity rose.

The sound of lamentation reached them before they were within its perimeters, the sobbing, emerging as it did from the murk of the smoke, reminding Gentle of the sounds he'd heard while keeping his vigil on the hill.

There was some military presence beyond the city perimeters, but it was discreet, and no attempt was made to stop them.

Controversy had raged for centuries about whether the Unbeheld had set it down in the smoky wastes of the Kwem to mark the midpoint between the perimeters of the Imajica, or whether a forest of such columns had once stood in the area, and some later hand (moved, perhaps, by Hapexamendios' wisdom) had leveled all but this one.

And have patrols doubled, and extend their perimeters by fifty pasangs.