How to Use outback in a Sentence
outback
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Yes, the world's largest camel herd is found in the outback as well.
—Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2017
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This wild frontier, described by guides as the outback of Chile, is new to the tourism game.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 18 June 2022
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Add in the adventure of some of that outback mountaineering, too.
—Jill K. Robinson, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
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The changes bring a bit of the Australian outback to the zoo for koalas, which are an endangered species.
—Cody Jackson, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
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The outback has the right geologic recipe for opal to form near the edges of an ancient inland sea.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 June 2019
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There was even an 8,000-mile road trip from Wycliffe to the Alaskan outback.
—Mort Mazor, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2021
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As night settled across the Australian outback, a rare bird emerged from its hiding place and moved across the ground.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
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South Australia may be a microcosm of the country as a whole, this outback town is unique to the state.
—Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2020
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This is a blend of tourism with purpose amid red gums and mallee scrub on one of the most beautiful outback properties in the country.
—Anabel Dean, CNN, 18 May 2022
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Like the other films, this one is set in the Australian outback, ravaged by apocalypse.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
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Millions of rotting fish clogging up a river in the Australian outback.
—Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
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The Tourist opens in the great vastness and deserted Australian outback.
—Sheena Scott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
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Coober Pedy is located, for the most part, underneath the outback sandstone.
—Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2018
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Meet Aboriginal people in the outback to learn about their culture, and camp out in the desert under the stars.
—National Geographic, 17 June 2019
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Dystopian futuristic action in the Australian outback is quite a ways, in all sorts of ways, from a tale of a djinn.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
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Users were able to comment on posts about the Australian outback incident by local news outlets.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
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The cast is assembled in Broken Hill, which is in the outback in Australia.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2022
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If good fences make good neighbors, then humans and dingoes, the feral dogs of the Australian outback, must be the best neighbors of all.
—Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2017
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The fossil of a 96-million-year-old pterosaur has been discovered in the Australian outback.
—Fox News, 3 Oct. 2019
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From the wide-open landscapes of the West and the outback, rose up cowboys and sheriffs, rebels and renegades, miners and mountaineers.
—Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019
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The first episode gives us Dornan driving across the Australian outback when he’s suddenly being chased by a truck.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
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Observe black cockatoos preen in the drooping she-oaks, or marvel at the Dali-esque outback, filled with its skeletal mallee trees.
—Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 19 June 2026
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When the idea was initially conceived, under a full moon in Australia’s outback, the pair had planned to meet and get married in the middle.
—Stephy Chung, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
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Camp out under the stars in the Australian outback and snorkel along the Great Barrier Reef.
—National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
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Campers Australians Emma and Nick Thomson grew up camping in the outback.
—Berne Broudy, Outside Online, 18 May 2015
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The blood-pumping thriller starts with a man and his young son arriving at a rave in the Moroccan outback looking for their daughter/sister.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
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Take the story of the longest living trapdoor spider, who survived in the Australian outback to the ripe age of 43.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The red dirt of the surrounding outback made the 1,500-resident town seem more Mars than Earth.
—Serena Solomon, The Seattle Times, 30 June 2017
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The red dirt of the surrounding outback makes the 1,500-resident town seem more Mars than Earth.
—The New York Times, NOLA.com, 26 June 2017
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Citing safety issues, the venue postponed for a week the opening of the show about two drag queens and a trans woman performer who head to Australia’s outback.
—Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 6 May 2017
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