How to Use the outside world in a Sentence

the outside world

noun
  • The door to the outside world, to our cars and the road, is right down the hall.
    Jessica L. Pavia, Longreads, 21 Feb. 2023
  • She’s trapped with her five-year-old son Jack, who was born in confinement and has no concept of the outside world.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Much like the Astros win a lot of baseball games and make a lot of money, Crane has made a lot of money in the outside world as well.
    Josh Criswell, Chron, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The shift follows almost three years of strict Covid-19 controls that all but cut China off from the outside world.
    Jason Douglas, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The calls are a safe space to connect with the outside world after the dramatic loss of freedom the students have endured.
    Mary Ann Koruth, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Through the second half of the twentieth century, the opening up of the university to the outside world and the work valued in that world aligned.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • There was no electricity in Taos or indoor plumbing, the roads were mud and only one telephone in town was wired to the outside world.
    Kealey Boyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • His parents were diplomats, and he was exposed to the outside world before most of his generation.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The 12-day trial offered a glimpse into the complicated lives of people who, to the outside world, have been wildly successful.
    Andrea Estes, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • In case the Russian leader wants to reach the outside world, the train boasts a sophisticated communications car.
    Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Humans and animals use their bodies to communicate distress, but a blob of neurons has no means of connecting with the outside world.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But once an Australian geologist discovered that the spot was loaded with high-grade phosphate, much in demand as fertilizer, the outside world rushed in.
    WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The novel itself is a paradoxically frenetic illustration of this paralysis: Abby’s thoughts race but go nowhere, and no one in the outside world moves to address the catastrophe escalating around them.
    Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023

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