How to Use outpost in a Sentence
outpost
noun- The city was established as a military outpost in the 1800s.
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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 -
Ralph’s The terrace at the Ralph’s outpost in Paris (one of five locations around the world).
— Jade Simon, Vogue, 21 June 2024 -
There's no need for a quick jaunt to Paris now that Fouquet's has opened its New York outpost.
— Leena Kim, Town & Country, 5 Jan. 2023 -
The airy and style-forward restaurant is the second outpost of the brand, which first launched in Camden in 2005.
— Nicole Trilivas, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022 -
Kennedy Sanders was killed in a drone attack on a U.S. outpost in Jordan.
— Kenny Holston, New York Times, 27 May 2024 -
The settlers had decided to return and camp in the outpost.
— Fox News, 27 Feb. 2023 -
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 -
With each week, the junta’s forces abandon more outposts.
— Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024 -
The base is intended to be the first outpost on the moon’s South Pole, an area scientists think is the best place to find water.
— Selina Xu, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2022 -
Centuries passed, the outpost grew, and by the early 1800s Bangkok had taken its modern form.
— Jenny Adams, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 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 -
San Francisco is getting an outpost of one of the Bay Area’s best Thai restaurants.
— Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2023 -
Refined and understated, there's also an outpost of the iconic Parisian brasserie of the same name, and a world class spa.
— Leena Kim, Town & Country, 5 Jan. 2023 -
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 -
Owner Don Roth also had an outpost in Wheeling, which closed in 2009.
— Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 11 Aug. 2024 -
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 -
Indeed, Lenore was released, charges dropped, and the Empire outposts are up and running one day later — but for how long?
— Jay Bulger, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024 -
Roscosmos said the hatch between the station and the Progress MS-21 had been locked so the incident didn’t affect the orbiting outpost.
— Vladimir Isachenkov, ajc, 11 Feb. 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 -
Taking over an entire city block, the new four-floor outpost is now the second-largest Zara store it the world and includes a Zara Home department.
— Rhonda Richford, WWD, 11 Sep. 2024 -
From within the village’s empty ruins, there is a clear view across the valley to a tiny Jewish outpost called Meitarim Farm.
— Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024 -
The new outpost will offer indoor and outdoor seating, plus ocean views.
— Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023 -
The luxury cruise line Silversea is getting into the hotel business, building a 150-room outpost that the company says will be the southernmost property in the world.
— Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2024 -
Colonial outposts like Singapore and Hong Kong flourished as cosmopolitan hubs, honorary extensions of the metropole into alien lands.
— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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