How to Use outpost in a Sentence

outpost

noun
  • The city was established as a military outpost in the 1800s.
  • The school, which the IDF said was used as a Hamas outpost, was about a mile from the border fence.
    Jonathan Baran, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • These outposts can be used to help counter and fight the U.S. and its allies, for example, in a war over Taiwan.
    Krista Wiegand, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Chris Arellanes, the grilling master behind Kyu, will open his fourth outpost here.
    David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The outpost will come into view 10 degrees above the eastern horizon.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • One of those is in Boone—elevation 3333 feet, the frontier outpost ahead of the higher mountain towns.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The outpost will be positioned beyond the moon and serve a number of purposes — not least of which as a stopover for missions to Mars.
    Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023
  • After October 7th, an Army unit stayed at their outpost for a month.
    Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The brand’s new oceanfront outpost on the North Shore of Kauai is also very welcoming to families.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Getting to the entrance requires traversing open ground in the direct firing line of the Burma Army outpost.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The town center has grown up, too, into a hip outpost that offers pho and mezcal cocktails.
    Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Aside from beer, BrewDog opened its Cleveland outpost with a basic menu.
    Alex Darus, cleveland, 28 July 2023
  • An outpost of Cote is scheduled to open in Singapore later this year.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 July 2023
  • The outpost will first be visible 10 degrees above the south-southwest horizon.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2023
  • The refugee encampment is at least four hours away from the closest aid outpost in the region, and some parts of the sandy and bumpy tracks used to traverse the area will soon be submerged in the rainy season.
    Elian Peltier Yagazie Emezi, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • Mabu, an outpost of a Toronto restaurant, is a good introduction to the concept of a Hong Kong-style diner.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • The league had outposts in every corner of the former empire, from Moldova to Tajikistan, and all of them performed in the Russian language.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The stadiums as suburban outposts filled with RVs, tailgaters and hours of traffic — and acres of paved silence in the offseason — are the old way.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • From the big-city hustle of Kolkata to the onetime Mughal outpost of Murshidabad, with rural towns and villages in between, getting a taste of life Ganges-style was a breeze.
    Alex Greggery, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The evening started at Sotheby’s York Avenue outpost with a 6pm cocktail party.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The new owner may not be allowed to develop the secluded outpost.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The wooden vessel, said to be bringing supplies to Marines stationed on an outpost on the Second Thomas Shoal, was also damaged.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In 2027, Apple aims to add a fifth Indian outpost, a location in the seaside Worli area in Mumbai.
    Mark Gurman, Fortune, 1 June 2023
  • Taiwan, one of Kadokawa’s first non-Japanese outposts, clearly remains of high interest to the group.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • We’re reminded in all corners of the game, at outposts of all shapes, sizes and financial fight, that baseball rewards more than fat banks accounts.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
  • Cavazos remained alone on the enemy outpost to search for missing men while exposed to heavy hostile fire.
    Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • Petra, the famous site in Jordan, was the capital of the Nabatean people, while Hegra was the kingdom’s southern outpost until it was abandoned in the 12th century.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 May 2023
  • Upstairs is the low-key outpost in the sky, where everyone has their favorite corner to sip a riverine, cucumber, grapefruit and lemon mocktail from the bar and take in the panoramic view.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • There is, however, enough evidence to suggest that the Vikings did venture beyond this small outpost.
    Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Half a world away, at a U.S. Navy outpost in Bahrain, a much smaller team was testing out a very different approach to the service’s 21st-century warfighting needs.
    Eric Lipton, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023

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