How to Use outlying in a Sentence

outlying

adjective
  • Some outlying spots north and west could touch the 30s.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lows range from the low 20s in our outlying areas to near 30 downtown.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • High Tonight: Clear skies again with lows from the lower 20s in the outlying areas to near 30 in the city, with light winds mainly coming from the south.
    Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • That means troopers from outlying barracks around the state can spend hours driving there and back.
    Don Stacom, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • There might be a couple of additional pogroms in the outlying districts, one in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • In Maryland, outlying millers and merchants pushed for better roads to move goods like flour to the Port of Baltimore.
    Samuel M. Riley, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Dark smoke could be seen from many miles away after the attack on two outlying districts.
    Reuters, NBC News, 6 June 2022
  • Russia occupied the city and most of the outlying region, a key gateway to the Crimean Peninsula, for months.
    Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The only outlying day is Wednesday, which had a 30% chance of thunderstorms.
    Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Our transit systems are made to take outlying areas into one central place and not to take people to any point across a grid of places.
    Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Baranov had escaped to an outlying town and sent his family to a different city to look in on his parents.
    Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The scenes are part of the week-long Han Kuang exercises held across Taiwan and its outlying islands until Friday.
    Eric Cheung, CNN, 28 July 2022
  • Tomorrow night: Mostly clear again with lows mostly in the 30s, but a few outlying suburbs could still fall into the upper 20s.
    Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Lows will dip to about 32 degrees, with some outlying areas getting even colder.
    oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
  • However, the toll is expected to rise as more reports come in from outlying areas.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Edwards wrote that the airport used to be an outlying field utilized by the U.S. Navy for training piolets in Pensacola.
    al, 15 Dec. 2021
  • This is a teaser experience, after all, with full days spent in port, but so much more to explore in outlying areas.
    Lori A. May, Chron, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The managers expressed their gratitude to the firefighters who helped save the ranch homestead along with other outlying homes and buildings.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Two more circles lie inside that, and a grand avenue of standing stones leads away from it, stretching a mile and a half across the countryside to an outlying stone and timber circle.
    National Geographic, 19 July 2022
  • In outlying areas, the beleaguered found shelter in farmhouses that took them in.
    Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In addition, Yunlin county and the outlying Penghu county will suspend school and work from Sunday noon.
    Wayne Chang, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
  • With mostly clear skies, overnight lows are well below normal for the middle of May, mainly in the 40s with some upper 30s possible in outlying areas.
    Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • His stance is perhaps an outlying one in a nation where some social movements, like Black Lives Matter, have only just begun to make waves.
    Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But Laviolette said many rehearsal spaces are in rundown buildings in outlying corners of the city.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Trench warfare has swayed back and forth over outlying districts of the city of Bakhmut and nearby villages for months, with advances and retreats on both sides often measured in a few hundred yards.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023

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