How to Use outbound in a Sentence

outbound

adjective
Definition of outboundnext
  • The airline has canceled all outbound flights.
  • New Jersey has held the top outbound spot for the past three years.
    — Bethany Blankley, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2021
  • To see the top inbound and outbound states, click here or view the map below.
    — Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 2 Jan. 2018
  • But her name was not linked to any of the outbound flights from Newark airport at the time, Marshals said.
    — Fox News, 20 July 2022
  • All inbound and outbound flights have stopped for the time being.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The email also doesn’t include any outbound links for users to click on.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The state ranked No. 4 in terms of percentage of outbound moves, down one spot from last year’s study.
    — Russell Blair, courant.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • All inbound and outbound traffic at the base was stopped.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Explain to her that the IRS seldom makes outbound phone calls.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 3 May 2018
  • The crash caused a traffic tie-up on outbound Riverside Drive.
    — Chris Mayhew, The Enquirer, 8 June 2021
  • The passenger used all legs of the outbound flight, but did not catch the Frankfurt to Oslo return flight.
    — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
  • During the outage, inbound and outbound flights came to a halt.
    — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • An outbound Belgian relief ship, the Imo, had strayed off course.
    — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 15 July 2017
  • An outbound Belgian relief ship, the Imo, had strayed off course.
    — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
  • Bicycles and pedestrians will use only the path on the outbound side of the bridge.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • In Kansas City, the changes are focused on speeding up the loading of outbound trucks.
    — Evan Ramstad, Star Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • All outbound lanes of the Glenn Highway were closed at the Eklutna exit as of 4:11 p.m. after a crash.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2020
  • At the time of the incident, the boat was outbound on the New River headed toward the intercoastal, Golan said.
    — Kelsie Smith, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
  • In its report, Redfin also looked at the places with the most outbound traffic to see where people most wanted to leave.
    — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Each of Caggiano's outbound flights corresponds to a paper strip in a plastic sleeve.
    — Andrew Blum, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2009
  • The Suzuki continued out of control and came to rest in the outbound lanes of Freedom Drive, police said.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 31 Oct. 2017
  • During its outbound trek on April 18 and 19, the comet will pass less than a degree by the naked-eye star Rastaban in the head of the celestial dragon.
    — Gerald Rhemman, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2017
  • Back then, 52% of moves involving the state were outbound, compared to 48% inbound.
    — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 16 June 2022
  • At some point, workers will have to shift the express bus lane to the adjacent lane, taking out two outbound lanes in the mornings.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • In the mid-1970s, the kids in Chinatown would pile onto street corners waiting for the outbound cable car on the Powell/Hyde line.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Passengers will be able to change their flights up to 14 days before their outbound flight, according to a tweet.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2020
  • How did this impact schedules for inbound and outbound flights?
    — Carla Solorzano, Dallas News, 25 July 2022
  • Compared to the gloomy and foggy weather that the airport is known for, Wednesday’s weather is shaping up to be great for outbound flights.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The first segment of our outbound flight from Los Angeles to London was delayed.
    — Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The study also found that Utah’s largest share of outbound domestic transplants went to California.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023

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