How to Use outlying in a Sentence

outlying

adjective
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  • Some outlying spots north and west could touch the 30s.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Brainard said small parks in the city center are needed more than the large parks in the outlying parks of the city.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The plan was to get the outlying mosaics first, then work our way back into the city center.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Overnight lows could fall in to the low 40s in most areas, and even into the 30s in outlying valleys.
    — oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Lows range from the low 20s in our outlying areas to near 30 downtown.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • High Tonight: Clear skies again with lows from the lower 20s in the outlying areas to near 30 in the city, with light winds mainly coming from the south.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Leonid Fatkulin, 79, was still in bed on the first floor of his two-story brick home in an outlying district when the missiles struck.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And much of that growth was in outlying suburbs, adding to sprawl and pollution.
    — Richard McGahey, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • Cold enough for a true frost to develop in outlying areas to our north and west.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The immediate core of the metro might stay frost free, but many of the outlying areas could see their first frost of the season!
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Moscow and the outlying Moscow region were the first to announce the measure a month ago.
    — Daria Litvinova, ajc, 15 July 2021
  • In New York City, cases have more than tripled this year, and in the outlying areas, more than doubled.
    — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
  • That means troopers from outlying barracks around the state can spend hours driving there and back.
    — Don Stacom, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The king probably threw too many free coins out the window last year, and some of our outlying lands are dragon-scarred.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Mostly clear, calm and not too cold overnight, with lows settling in the upper 30s in outlying areas and in the low to mid-40s in urban spots.
    — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2021
  • While overnight temps won’t reach freezing in the metro core area, outlying areas could see their first real frost of the season.
    — oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2022
  • There might be a couple of additional pogroms in the outlying districts, one in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • Many more Afghan allies are still stranded in outlying cities and towns.
    — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • At the Teatro Costanzi, more than half of the children at the sleepover belonged to scout troops from Rome’s outlying neighborhoods.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo Alessandro Penso, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • Austin and the outlying suburbs offered us a lot of towns that hadn’t been developed.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Apr. 2023
  • In Maryland, outlying millers and merchants pushed for better roads to move goods like flour to the Port of Baltimore.
    — Samuel M. Riley, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Dark smoke could be seen from many miles away after the attack on two outlying districts.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 6 June 2022
  • There was the 1911 tiger which swam out to Hong Kong's outlying island of Lamma and feasted on cattle.
    — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Russia occupied the city and most of the outlying region, a key gateway to the Crimean Peninsula, for months.
    — Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Hoikei had heard that some of the protesters were very young, that many of them lived in the outlying New Territories and rarely came to the city center.
    — Lavender Au, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2021
  • Most outlying areas will reopen with the exception of the Wild Basin area.
    — Danika Worthington, The Know, 26 May 2020
  • Fans are banned from all venues in the Tokyo area, with limited audiences at a few outlying sites.
    — Mark Thiessen and Darlene Superville, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • The only outlying day is Wednesday, which had a 30% chance of thunderstorms.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Even so, the community continues to make progress in reaching outlying areas with supplies, the Facebook post went on.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Arkadelphia, circa 1960: There were no outlying shopping centers, Walmart stores or interstates yet in the small college town.
    — Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 2 Oct. 2024

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