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Example sentences for "outlying"

Lexicographically close words:
outlived; outlives; outliving; outlook; outlooks; outmaneuvered; outmanoeuvred; outmarch; outmatch; outmatched
  1. There is one outlying piece of the cemetery which seems to contradict my charitable interpretation.

  2. No place could be better chosen for surveying that contrasted scene of plain and mountain, which forms the great attraction of the outlying buttresses of the central Alpine mass.

  3. There, too, were droves of sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasture lands, and trains of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable journey.

  4. Looking back, they could see the solitary watcher leaning upon his gun, and knew that they had passed the outlying post of the chosen people, and that freedom lay before them.

  5. For instance, at Meadow Bank, an outlying district of Winsford, there is a large colony of Poles and Hungarians.

  6. He removed his troupe from Saffron Hill, to the outlying districts of Deptford, Greenwich, and Hammersmith.

  7. Most of our outlying naval bases are really or virtually insular, and are open to attack only by an expedition coming across the sea.

  8. What we had to do was to prevent the invasion of the United Kingdom and defend our trade and our outlying territories.

  9. Outlying naval bases, though but moderately fortified, that contain depots of stores, docks, and other conveniences, have the vice of all immobile establishments.

  10. Thus the primary defence of the outlying base is the active, sea-going fleet.

  11. The time has fully come when the people of the greater outlying parts of the empire should insist upon perfect equality of treatment with their home fellow-subjects in this matter.

  12. Then it was perceived that to fortify the dockyard ports in the mother country afforded very little protection to the outlying portions of the empire.

  13. The outlying farms flew away, as such new purchases had flown before; but the old patrimony of the Dales remained untouched, as it had ever remained.

  14. For a number of years, a prominent question among the inhabitants of the metropolis and outlying cities was that of their union under one government.

  15. With vulnerable points in our outlying possessions, we must make ready to defend them not only by force of arms but by diplomatic skill.

  16. Natchez, like her near and far river neighbors, has railways now, and is adding to them--pushing them hither and thither into all rich outlying regions that are naturally tributary to her.

  17. He was admirably adapted for such work as a cutting-out expedition, or a dash ashore to spike the guns of an outlying battery; but, when I first knew him, was utterly unfit for any service requiring discretion or tact in its execution.

  18. She had reached home after her day's milking at the outlying dairy, and was washing cabbage at the doorway in the declining light.

  19. Neither did she, at the daily milking in the dairyman's yard on Lodge's outlying second farm, ever speak on the subject of the recent marriage.

  20. It was therefore nearly eight o'clock when she drew rein to breathe the mare on the last outlying high point of heath-land towards Casterbridge, previous to leaving Egdon for the cultivated valleys.

  21. The detachment of the outlying portions of the empire followed.

  22. His own special portion consisted of Constantinople, the adjacent regions both on the European and the Asiatic side, along with some outlying districts, and several islands including Lemnos, Lesbos, Chios and Tenos.

  23. We know, however, that the outlying portions of the Continent contain three distinct and grand centres of mining-industry.

  24. Men had come in for the orgy from all the outlying camps.

  25. And if they're doing that here, what about the outlying camps?

  26. This was, of course, much more true of New York City and Island than of the outlying Dutch villages.

  27. In time, also, some of the outlying territory was organized into parishes, and churches were established in these.

  28. Gold, more than specks and grains, had been found somewhere, and the outlying stragglers quickened their pace in their haste to reach the place before all the good fortune had gone round.

  29. Whatever the charges may be at the outlying posts, competition keeps them within bounds in Winnipeg.

  30. The day before yesterday; he is up at an outlying hut of ours in the ranges.

  31. He was the only son of a small farmer, in one of the distant outlying hamlets of Drumston, called Woodlands.

  32. Only going to get an outlying deer," said he.

  33. Major," said Frank, "how many outlying huts have you?

  34. Latterly he had been requested to furnish designs for some blocks of houses in the outlying wards of the city, where the owners sought to provide attractive, modern flats for people with moderate means.

  35. Selma took her first view of this brilliant street on the following day on her way to hunt for houses in the outlying district.

  36. The Hall was in one of the further and newly opened suburbs, and its side and rear windows gave immediately upon the outlying and illimitable plain of Tasajara.

  37. Nowhere else were the plastered walls and ceilings as white and dazzling in their unstained purity, or as redolent of the outlying quarry in their clear cool breath of lime and stone.

  38. For reasons known best to herself she did not take her after-dinner stroll along the shore to watch the outlying fog.

  39. The teeming earth seemed to quicken and throb beneath her feet; the few circuits of a plough around the outlying corral were enough to call out a jungle growth of giant grain that almost hid the low walls of the hacienda.

  40. The sun had already disappeared over the mountain wall that lay between him and the sea, rimmed with a faint white line of outlying fog.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outlying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apparent; back; distant; exterior; external; extraneous; extrinsic; far; faraway; foreign; fringe; impersonal; objective; out; outer; outermost; outlying; outmost; outside; outstanding; outward; peripheral; public; remote; removed; roundabout; seeming; superficial; surface