How to Use external in a Sentence

external

1 of 2 adjective

• Pro that does much more than track external patterns and moves on the field.
  — Justyn Newman, PC Magazine, 8 July 2026
• Leaders need more than mere external sight to guide them.
  — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
• Leaders need more than mere external sight to guide them.
  — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
• Use cloud backups, an external hard drive or both.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
• This is a lofty goal that cannot be imposed by external powers.
  — Ghassan E. El-Eid, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
• An external hard drive often costs less than a year or two of cloud storage fees.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
• An external hire in a specialized field takes months to reach that point.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• Also, watch for anyone who brings his own flash drive or external drive.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
• Sometimes my needs and external forces are too much for the body, my body, to handle.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
• O’Brien did not mince words about this kind of external pressure.
  — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
• What external forces shape this market?
  — Calvin Goulding, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• The friction was external forces, right?
  — Regina Kim, Vanity Fair, 6 Apr. 2026
• Most hunting packs, even burly external frame packs, weigh in at less than 10 pounds.
  — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
• When needed, bring in external support to fill gaps.
  — Ro'ee Margalit, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• One of those ports is fast enough for an external display or an external drive.
  — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
• None of us gets to choose our external influences; we are born into them.
  — Nicolas Johnson-Smith, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2026
• Light from the sun serves as the external cue to resynchronize the master clock.
  — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
• If external progress is greater than internal, the end is all but certain with time.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• But the external searches that used to take four to five months are now running seven to nine.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026
• Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2025
• If employees do not need external drives for daily work, block them.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
• That compactness is the pitch, with one unit, one plug and no external hardware.
  — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2026
• Unlike external free agents, the front office is free to speak with these players and their reps at any time.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
• The pool and rooftop bars are for hotel guests only, while the restaurants are open to external guests.
  — Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
• At the same time, both rivals rely on external, laptop-style adapters.
  — PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
• Vertebrates ditched their body armor and scales for smooth skin; cephalopods lost their external shell.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
• Outcomes for each dose group were compared to an external control.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 25 Sep. 2025
• Dallas has routinely not spent a lot of money on external free agents in the past.
  — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2026
• The emphasis stays on the external body.
  — Jann E. Freed, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• The timing also speaks to external changes.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2026

external

2 of 2 noun

• After a minute or so, the mind goes outward once again and attends to the externals.
  — Martin Seligman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The kind of love that isn’t based on externals, but on a deep connection within.
  — Paige Davis, Health.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Adora insists that externals cannot be the basis of a good and truly content life.
  — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
• The externals extend upward from the hipbone to the ribs and spine, and the internals rise forward from the hip to ribs.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2018
• The externals also take in the seafront and village settings, and the result is a sweeping eight-part Dutch period drama.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2026
• The externals don’t really matter.
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
• Dano, meanwhile, was interested in exploring the internal more than the external of his character.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
• Information out to the Foundation, alumni and other externals, too.
  — Dawn Rhodes, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• The poem dismisses prevailing emphases on externals, stressing instead the formative powers of one’s inner being.
  — Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025