How to Use outer in a Sentence

outer

adjective

• I removed the outer skin of the onion.
• Her inner turmoil was masked by an outer calm.
• The package's outer covering was damaged.
• Your outer thigh should touch the floor.
  — Danielle Zickl, Health, 15 Jan. 2026
• All three phones have outer screens, as well.
  — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 17 Mar. 2026
• Such hot cores are rare in the outer galaxy.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
• Avoid touching the front outer part of the mask when putting it on.
  — Eliza MacKintosh and Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
• And if there were big names on an outer court, forget about it.
  — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• Ground-hugging plants can be pruned around the outer edges.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
• The outer petals can be yellow, white, or pink.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026
• Again, the inner and the outer world.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
• The outer leaves should be tightly packed and crisp, not limp or dry.
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2026
• The bag won’t latch if sleeves or socks are hanging over the outer edge.
  — Rebecca Malinsky, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
• Start by picking the largest, outer leaves.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2026
• Her outer healing has helped her, too.
  — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 24 June 2026
• Some apartments' outer walls had been stripped away.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026
• Some apartments’ outer walls had been stripped away.
  — Dallas Morning News, 15 Mar. 2026
• Peel away outer skin from garlic.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Sep. 2025
• An outer wall of a Church still stands in Ornes.
  — Michael Jerome Plunkett september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
• This cloud of gas forms when a star sheds its outer layers near the end of its life.
  — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
• Any mission to the outer planets still takes quite a bit of time.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2022
• The outer shell of a comforter is the part that touches your skin.
  — Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2021
• The inner rings will fall first and the outer rings will follow.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
• The poncho-style outer layer fell just past the hem of the slip.
  — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 25 Jan. 2026
• That set up a diet of breaking balls on the outer half of the plate.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• My quail shot had lodged between the outer hide and the thin inner skin.
  — Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
• My inner life had to keep pace with the facts and furies of the outer world.
  — Margo Jefferson, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• Tiny seeds with thin outer shells do not require soaking.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
• When the sway gets too risky, the captain closes some of the outer decks.
  — Akash Kapur, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
• Pipe a ½-inch ring of frosting around outer edge of cake layer.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2023