Outpost

//ˈaʊtˌpoʊst//

"Outpost" in a Sentence (16 examples)

In a lawless outpost deep within the desert, everybody wore football shoulder pads and mohawks.

Cuba is the nearest outpost of Soviet communism.

Sami was in a remote mountain outpost.

I read the article "Science Enabled by a Moon Village" about the possible scientific opportunities of a lunar outpost, in the similar scheme as an Antarctic research facility.

A barrage of rockets and mortars rained down on the Moroccan outpost.

For now, the red phone boxes, the double-decker buses, the pubs and fish and chips restaurants show Gibraltar is an unmistakable British outpost in southern Europe.

Ziri fled to a military outpost.

Ziri was sent to an old military outpost in the middle of nowhere.

Flavio and his men began to explore the outpost.

Flavio was guarding the outpost.

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The outpost did not have enough ammunition to resist a determined assault.

Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps.

Beyond the border proper, there are three small outposts not officially under government protection.

On March 9, 1903, an extension, 50 miles in length, was opened from Letterkenny to the remote outpost of Burtonport, a small township on the shores of the Atlantic in the far north-west corner of Co. Donegal, running through some of the wildest and bleakest parts of the country.

[…] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]

Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church.

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