How to Use out-of-town in a Sentence

out-of-town

1 of 2 adjective

• That was our first big out-of-town show.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• Our out-of-town reviews were scathing.
  — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
• This is a place to bring your out-of-town foodie friends.
  — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
• The roomy space could also be used to house out-of-town guests.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2023
• The hosts of the party had out-of-town guests who brought their dog with them.
  — Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2023
• Aficionados and out-of-town art buffs make up the bulk of the guests.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026
• Specialty crooks went straight to the caboose of out-of-town trains.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• This is where locals take their most discerning out-of-town friends.
  — Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• The 24 taps pour some of the best local beers and many notable out-of-town ales.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
• Day 5 calls for a mini out-of-town excursion.
  — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
• Especially for our out-of-town guests.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 5 Dec. 2025
• The local media are used to it, but out-of-town media hate the setup.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
• This is not something the Dodgers can dismiss as an out-of-town issue.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
• My family also loves it for out-of-town sporting events and quick trips to the beach.
  — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
• But this one would be good for one thing — pleasing the tens of thousands of out-of-town fans who come to their home games.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
• The main dials on each of the clock’s four sides show local time and are much larger than the out-of-town ones.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
• For 12 days, we were marooned at home — with out-of-town company, no less.
  — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2024
• And the basement works like a charm for parties or when out-of-town friends and relatives need a place to stay.
  — Jody Garlock, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2026
• Most out-of-town visitors take a ferry or shuttle from nearby launch points.
  — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2025
• And this for a facility largely used by out-of-town commuters.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 2 June 2025
• But the boom in out-of-town restaurants hasn’t come without casualties to the home team.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 22 May 2023
• Locals come for dinner, dining elbow to elbow with out-of-town guests.
  — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
• There was no funeral wake, no way for out-of-town family or friends to drive in for the service.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• Ignore the invasion of out-of-town restaurants.
  — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
• Paxton urged residents with children to have an out-of-town contact.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
• Another open question is whether there will be demand to fill these buildings with out-of-town guests.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2024
• For out-of-town events, travel to and from the event should be tracked in the travel category.
  — Vlad Rusz, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• Designate an out-of-town contact that everyone can check in with.
  — Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 20 June 2026
• The show got its start in a 2018 out-of-town tryout in Boston.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
• Valenti said the driver was an out-of-town tourist who was trying to get from dinner back to his hotel room.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 18 July 2025

out of town

2 of 2 phrase

• Cawley said an older man who lives in the home is out of town.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• When one of you had to go out of town, the other person would help with the other child.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
• Don’t be afraid that a crochet dress is limited only to your time out of town.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Feb. 2023
• Fans, known as the Tifosi, got sick of waiting and ran the previous owner out of town.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
• Tim had stopped picking up shifts at the Sheriff’s Office, which forced him to take more jobs out of town.
  — Lisa Riordan Seville, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
• Also on the subject of time, the film has the affair taking place over one weekend when Beth is out of town.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2023
• Not to mention their extended families, who often visit from out of town.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 8 Mar. 2023
• The company paid out a settlement the couple used to buy a big house with a big porch 7 miles out of town, far away from the railroad tracks.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• The duo plays a few shows around town, records a couple of albums, heads out of town for a few tours, and then divorces in 2000.
  — Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 1 June 2023
• Security at the subdivision told them the homeowners had been out of town.
  — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 5 Feb. 2023
• The former vice president was not present for the search and is currently out of town, according to a source familiar with the search.
  — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2023
• Before Pfaadt headed out of town, Strom wanted to deliver a message.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
• Some of what Mulkey said matched up with what Hill believed to be the case – that the couple was out of town visiting family.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 20 Apr. 2023
• House Democrats tried to seize on Republicans' absence even though Biden is also getting out of town.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• The 40-caliber gun was found wrapped in a bedroom drawer of one of the residents who was out of town for the weekend and returned to find the gun in his drawer.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 22 Mar. 2023
• Erickson said that family had been out of town for the holiday and came home to find Ayala gone, their home ransacked and a vehicle missing.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2023
• Shukla was out of town after being summoned to the capital by tax investigators, and desperate villagers were unable to reach him.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
• Rounsaville said the Plano building is getting looks from potential tenants now located around North Texas plus firms coming from out of town.
  — Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2023
• At 26 years old, the woman escaped an abusive ex-boyfriend connected with the drug trade, who stalked her, locked her in a room for five days, and eventually ran her out of town, and Colombia.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2023
• Joe, who had begun working at H-E-B as a produce stocker as a teenager, worked his way up to a managerial position that often took him out of town.
  — Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2023
• While the vehicles were meant to be driven to and from work by Blanton, the review discovered that the cars were used for weekend trips to a craft brewery, going out of town and general family use.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Residents worked into the night to plug a culvert — a drain under Highway 43 — with plywood and sandbags in a desperate effort to keep floodwater out of town.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• For one thing, his wife Kelly is out of town, which means fewer vegetables, a bit more candy, and a much later bedtime for both him and their 10-year-old daughter, Evelyn.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
• Although there’s at least one claim that the 28-year-old is back in the Bay Area after spending recent weeks out of town, that report was not confirmed by the team and there is still no timetable for when the forward will return.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2023
• The comparatively few living without shelter in wealthy coastal city get sent out of town Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey presents himself as a politician who has a solution for homelessness.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
• Just outside the city center, Halil Gulmus, a 60-year-old truck driver who had transported an excavator to Adiyaman, offered a ride out of town to a Syrian family who had lost their home.
  — Zeynep Karatas, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023