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Example sentences for "outliers"

Lexicographically close words:
outlays; outleap; outlet; outlets; outlier; outline; outlined; outlines; outlining; outlive
  1. There are, around the coast, numerous islands or groups of islands, which are regarded by geographers as outliers of the Ownership of the African Islands.

  2. Small outliers of conglomerate and sandstone of this age have recently been found in the course of excavations in Aberdeen.

  3. When the view cleared we saw various outliers of hill, all running nearly parallel and striking north with more or less easting; the temperature was delightful, and between the showers the breezes were most refreshing.

  4. The normal formation continued, and here the land is evidently built by the river; there are few hills, and the present direction of the bed has been determined by the rocks and reefs, the outliers of the old true coast.

  5. Cader Idris, upon the right, fills all that side of the picture; the Arrans furnish the centre distance; while the outliers of Llawr Lech and Y Garn occupy the left.

  6. One peak stood like a field-officer with his cap raised above his head, others sent straggling cloud-balloons upwards; but on watching these outliers they were gradually seen to disappear.

  7. Looking from the blue arch westwards, the heavens were seen filled by crimson clouds, with fiery outliers reaching up to the zenith.

  8. Outliers of these beds appear on the shore near Cullen and south of Fordyce, while the largest area extends from Gamrie east by Pennan on the north coast of Aberdeenshire to Aberdeen.

  9. The flame-like processes and outliers are composed of writhing filaments, and the contours are continually changing while the colony moves as a whole.

  10. We enter the outliers of those great sierras that shut out Estremadura from León and Castile, from Portugal--and the world!

  11. The innermost of this sharp line of serrated basaltic outliers is the Pedra do Furado, which Englishmen call the Arch-Rock.

  12. From Machico Bay we see the Fora and other eastern outliers which form the Madeiran hatchet-handle.

  13. These two were outliers to the rest, beating the bushes beyond the Jump-off incessantly.

  14. It is true the mixed bloods and the whites had their scouts and outliers busy, but they found nothing to alarm.

  15. Other outliers of the main region are found eastward in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and even Utah and Colorado, though for the most part in these states grape-growing is still insignificant.

  16. Westward are the outliers of the Vilcapampa range; on the east are the smaller ranges that front the tropical lowlands.

  17. There are outliers of the Andes still farther toward the northeast where hangs the inevitable haze of the tropical horizon, but the country beyond them differs in no important respect from that immediately below the Pongo.

  18. These outliers are sometimes on such a scale as to admit of minor hills and valleys, having been shaped out of them by the action of rain and small streamlets, as near Freiburg in the Breisgau and other districts.

  19. The greater part of this loam has been since removed, so that a fringe only of the deposit is now left on the flanks of the boundary hills, or occasionally some outliers in the middle of the great plain of the Rhine where it expands in width.

  20. Finally, an exposure of ten hours made by Barnard with the Willard lens indicated the singular fact that the entire group is embedded in a nebulous matrix, streaky outliers of which blur a wide surface of the celestial vault.

  21. In the breaking down of sheets of horizontal strata, outliers grow smaller and smaller and are reduced to massive rectangular monuments resembling castles (Fig.

  22. Retreating cliffs may fall back a number of miles behind their outliers before the latter are finally consumed.

  23. Continental islands may be regarded as appendages to the neighboring continent--as outliers of continents separated by submergence, and have, in fact, been thus formed.

  24. They are in structure true continental islands--outliers of the mainland separated by a subsidence of a few hundred feet.

  25. Two other outliers of the northern evergreen forest extend southward along the cool heights of the Rocky Mountains and of the Pacific coast ranges of the United States.

  26. Outliers of the pine forest extend far down into the United States.

  27. The southern outliers lie far down the Wady 'Afál, facing east, and hewn in the left flank of a dwarf gulley which falls into the right bank not far from the site called by our men "the tavern.

  28. Small Carboniferous outliers on the summits of the great cliff of Slieve League show the former extension of these strata.

  29. The Upper Greensand appears again as outliers farther west, forming the high ground above Lyme Regis, Golden Cap, and Pillesden and Lewesden Pens.

  30. Except where the Greensand outliers occur, the south-western part of the county is occupied by Lower and Middle Lias beds.

  31. The other two are outliers from this reef, but there appears to be a good deal of surface gold.

  32. I strongly recommend your purchasing these outliers in large quantities.

  33. Carmel East and West were both outliers from this main reef, but in both there was a good deal of surface gold, very easy to get at, and they should soon become dividend-payers.

  34. Numbers two and three were outliers from the direct line of this vein, but in both a good deal of outcrop gold might be profitably worked.

  35. Just opposite, there are buttes, outliers of cliffs to the left.

  36. The hills mentioned above are humble time-worn outliers of the very ancient Aravalli system, to which the hills of Rájputána belong.

  37. I would fain have visited some of the neighboring outliers of the Oölite, but time did not permit.

  38. Every hillock in the Atlas outliers is crowned by the tiny domed tomb, or koubba, of some local saint; every sacred grove overshadows the relics of some reverend Marabout.

  39. One may say that the Riviera, properly so called, has its origin where the Esterel abuts upon the Gulf of Frejus, and extends as far as the outliers of the Alps skirt the Italian shore of the Mediterranean.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outliers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.