How to Use the outback in a Sentence

the outback

noun

• And will what happened in the outback come back to haunt them?
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 24 Aug. 2023
• This wild frontier, described by guides as the outback of Chile, is new to the tourism game.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 18 June 2022
• As a range of awful thoughts filled his head, Evenson worked to arrange a phone call from the outback.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2022
• The cast is assembled in Broken Hill, which is in the outback in Australia.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2022
• The Tasmanian tiger could start roaming the outback again.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
• Intense, bold and fearless, this cologne is up for any challenge, whether that’s a trek through the outback or a keynote presentation.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• The children were bused in from schools all over the Barkly Region, a vast expanse of the outback that is about the size of Finland but has a population of only about 8,000 people.
  — Jenny Vrentas Isabella Moore, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• As cattle ranches began to spread through the outback, the local beetles turned up their noses (or at least their antennae) at this new kind of sloppy dung.
  — Steve Nicholls, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
• Disembarking the plane in the city Darwin, in the northern part of Australia, I was struck by the sheer scale of this remote landscape — the ruggedness of the outback juxtaposed against the lush, green backdrop of the tropics.
  — Drew Kluska, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
• The disintegrating machine rained tons of debris across the outback.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• Getzin tells Live Science that only grasses from the Trioda genus grow in the outback studied in the new paper, and if more varied species had been present, the circles may have been less pronounced.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2020
• My specialty has been delivering yarns from the outback.
  — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Dec. 2020
• The contrasting landscapes here, including coral coastlines, vast floodplains, rocky escarpments, and the ochre sands of the outback, are astounding.
  — Drew Kluska, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
• Australian authorities and mining giant Rio Tinto are scrambling to find a small radioactive capsule lost somewhere along a near-900-mile stretch of road in the outback.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
• For passengers looking to further explore the outback, there are several add-on experiences, like a plane ride from Alice Springs to Australia's famous Uluru rock.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2022
• Beneath the surface, art galleries and churches also dot the outback town, including the spectacular Serbian Orthodox Church.
  — Keira Alexander, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2023
• There in the outback, Burgett and Premcar’s engineering director, Bernie Quinn, pushed a test mule up to 120 mph over gravel tracks and sandy ruts while testing hard acceleration, cornering, and braking.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024