How to Use at the outside in a Sentence

at the outside

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  • After the inside of your set is cleaned up, take a look at the outside.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Start at the outside edges and work toward the center when cleaning.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Perhaps the Bears will win one more game this season, two at the outside.
    Steve Silverman, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Turn off the gas at the outside main valve, then call your natural gas provider from a neighbor's home.
    Pat Harvey, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That’s not a good sign for the Dolphins, a team that lacks depth at the outside corner spot.
    C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 9 June 2025
  • Walleyes are at the outside edge of the weeds and at the deeper structure, such as sunken humps and islands.
    Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
  • And kind of playing with things at the outside of the edges in very superficial ways?
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The two rookies at the outside linebacker spot have been paired all offseason.
    Alex Zietlow july 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2025
  • Starting at the outside edge of the stain, work toward the center to help prevent the ink from spreading.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2024
  • But analyzing data is like looking at the outside of a house.
    Shannon Badger, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • So there are big decisions to be made at the outside linebacker position.
    Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Torrens led off the sixth with his second homer of the day, connecting on a sinker just at the outside corner of the zone.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024
  • Grab a table at the outside waterfront patio and dining area.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 5 May 2025
  • Start at the outside edges moving in to prevent spreading and let the soap work for at least 10 minutes.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 31 Dec. 2025
  • There’s plenty of depth at the outside linebacker position, and Kennard is part of that depth.
    Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
  • That trait should give him a high floor at the outside linebacker position, especially as a rookie.
    Mike Kaye july 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2025
  • No matter how large a biofilm got, Yunker found, the geometry at the outside edge remained constant.
    Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Starting at the outside edges of the stain, working toward the center to keep the stained area from getting larger, gently wipe the stained area.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Nov. 2025
  • No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device at the handwash sink at the outside bar.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The 60% material can be brought to 90% - that's weapon grade — in roughly one week, maybe 10 days at the outside.
    Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • But even after decades in office, Nancy Pelosi wasn’t particularly skilled at the outside game.
    USA Today, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Whether or not Manchin kills his own party's climate plan, West Virginia's coal industry has maybe a decade of life left, at the outside.
    Ryan Cooper, The Week, 19 Oct. 2021
  • News cameras then spent much of Thursday trained at the outside of the California courtroom where Hunter was set to appear.
    Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Eyes on Within four minutes of arriving at the outside wall of the Louvre, the thieves had scaled the building and were breaking through a window.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The video starts with a look at the outside of the house, where purple and orange twinkle lights illuminate the shrubs along the walkway and the windows are lit up in different colors.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Adjacent rows of magnets are oriented in opposite directions, twisting the magnetic-field lines at the outside edges.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 Oct. 2024
  • While the calls were being monitored there was simultaneous surveillance going on at the outside locations.
    Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The departure of Chandler Jones opened up the competition at the outside linebacker spots, where there are seven players on the depth chart for two starting spots.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022
  • But while all eyes were on him for those watching at home, those at the game could see the hooded figures begin sitting in large concentric circles at the outside perimeter of the spectacle for Em’s slot.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Doorbell and surveillance cameras pointed at the outside entryway of a home can log the date and time that individuals and passing vehicles are detected.
    Gary Gibula, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021

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