How to Use outlying in a Sentence

outlying

adjective

• Then search for outlying suckers and prune them down to the ground.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
• Many of the markets that made the list are in metro areas rather than outlying parts of the city.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 17 Jan. 2026
• Cold enough for a true frost to develop in outlying areas to our north and west.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
• Brainard said small parks in the city center are needed more than the large parks in the outlying parks of the city.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
• Dark smoke could be seen from many miles away after the attack on two outlying districts.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 6 June 2022
• The plan was to get the outlying mosaics first, then work our way back into the city center.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• And much of that growth was in outlying suburbs, adding to sprawl and pollution.
  — Richard McGahey, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• To sprinkle black children among white pupils in outlying schools is at best a stop-gap measure.
  — Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
• Many more Afghan allies are still stranded in outlying cities and towns.
  — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
• That means troopers from outlying barracks around the state can spend hours driving there and back.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2022
• Many homes in rural and outlying areas are made from mud bricks and wood, with many poorly built.
  — ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
• Bullet holes pepper outlying houses and the minaret of a mosque.
  — The Economist, 9 June 2018
• Advocates have long called for bike share systems in outlying areas of the city.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 9 June 2018
• Austin and the outlying suburbs offered us a lot of towns that hadn’t been developed.
  — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Apr. 2023
• The king probably threw too many free coins out the window last year, and some of our outlying lands are dragon-scarred.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
• While overnight temps won’t reach freezing in the metro core area, outlying areas could see their first real frost of the season.
  — oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2022
• Lows range from the low 20s in our outlying areas to near 30 downtown.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
• Fans are banned from all venues in the Tokyo area, with limited audiences at a few outlying sites.
  — Mark Thiessen and Darlene Superville, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
• Fans are banned from all venues in the Tokyo area, with limited audiences at a few outlying sites.
  — Fox News, 21 July 2021
• Because of home rule, the outlying communities think the city's problems are its own to solve.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 27 June 2017
• The immediate core of the metro might stay frost free, but many of the outlying areas could see their first frost of the season!
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
• Moscow and the outlying Moscow region were the first to announce the measure a month ago.
  — Daria Litvinova, ajc, 15 July 2021
• Millions of people living in the outlying regions that Mao claimed for the party will be seething.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• Overnight lows will remain cool, dropping to the mid-40s, which could feel even cooler in outlying areas.
  — Skylar Heisey, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
• Overnight lows could fall in to the low 40s in most areas, and even into the 30s in outlying valleys.
  — oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2021
• No fans were allowed during the Olympics, except for a few thousand at outlying venues away from Tokyo.
  — Stephen Wade, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2021
• Most outlying areas will reopen with the exception of the Wild Basin area.
  — Danika Worthington, The Know, 26 May 2020
• In New York City, cases have more than tripled this year, and in the outlying areas, more than doubled.
  — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
• The skirmish on a main drag in the outlying Tsuen Wan district followed a march that ended in a nearby park.
  — NBC News, 25 Aug. 2019
• Leonid Fatkulin, 79, was still in bed on the first floor of his two-story brick home in an outlying district when the missiles struck.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022