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Sentence Examples Three crews, made up of four American astronauts and five Russian cosmonauts, have called the space outpost home. The island becomes an outpost of civilization in the midst of a strange culture. As a Roman military outpost, and with the aid of its uncouth denizens, the island was used as a staging point for the invasion of Great Britain. We didn't manage the lot, not by a long chalk, but we managed this distant outpost. It has long been known that Eboracum was an important outpost of the Roman empire. Hanger steak is as good as the one in the Paris outpost, sinewy, briny, and full of brash flavor. The Scottish Office, after all, was never intended to do anything other than administer a regional outpost of central government. It is not the last outpost of colonialism, but the first bulwark of democracy. With an intense eye, he gazes like a spirit guardian, across the valley to the ruins of Runku Raqay, an old Inca outpost. It worked, and the island of Penang became the British East India Company's first trading outpost in the Far East. He laughed upon hearing that there was now a McDonald's on the isolated and remote Aleutian outpost. The blast occurred about 30 minutes ago near a military outpost and appeared to have come either from a car bomb or a tunnel. The Russian Soyuz is now the only ship capable of carrying crew to and from the space outpost. There had been nothing in the clearing, so I returned to the military outpost, already knowing what I would find there. Police said the guerrillas disarmed paramilitary troops manning the outpost after a brief fire-fight. The Brother Islands are a solitary outpost, rising like twin towers from the abyssal depths. In my book, a Sunday afternoon jaunt to report on a game at the westerly outpost could only ever be described as a treat, not a chore. But the new boss will have to address the role and purpose of its northerly outpost sooner rather than later. He has long nourished a special contempt for the country he sees as a lone outpost of Western ideals in the Middle East. City police officers who'd been there that day left their outpost to greet him. Show More Sentences Following hot on the heels of my electrical outage a week ago, I'm beginning to feel like a third world outpost here in leafy Irvine. Having been colonised by man, Mars is now an automated industrial outpost overseen entirely by droids. An outpost of the Inca empire, thought to have been inhabited by the Chachapoyas, has been discovered in Peru's Amazon jungle. The land he first visited in 1809-11 was a rugged outpost of the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled the Greeks since the fifteenth century. Before the men's singles final began, a lusty chorus of Waltzing Matilda turned Wimbledon Centre Court into an Aussie outpost. You have enough male and female crew members to start a good-sized outpost. The foursome decide to beat it out of London using Frank's taxi, in search of an army outpost broadcasting the lone radio signal. A soldier busts out of an outpost and you gun him down before he can do the same to you. At first glance, the junkyard looks like some sort of post-apocalyptic settlement, a thriving outpost in a wasteland. The outpost sat on the horizon, a black smudge with streaks of pink and orange in the sky behind it. Its destination was Christmas Island, an Australian territorial outpost, about 300 nautical miles due south of Sumatra. Subsequent years saw the character of Sofia change from an oriental outpost to a European city, a trend that continues. Who knows, they might even get to stop off at the last outpost of empire, the Falkland Islands, on the way home? A combat outpost in the tangi Valley had proved so indefensible that U.S. forces abandoned it in April. Nobody would hold up the single outpost of Moo Cluck Moo as a cure for the malady of low wages. A guard tower sat high up on a nearby hill, but the outpost itself was no fortress. Bergdahl was relieved from guard duty, and instead of going to sleep, he fled the outpost on foot. Outsiders envy our nearness to the lake and the life's-a-holiday vibe, even as they see it as a distant outpost, some eastern outpost of the moon. Bishop Rock, off the Scilly Isles, is Britain's most south-westerly Atlantic outpost, with a long history of wrecked shipping and ravaged lighthouses. From where I'm sitting right now I can see a brushy patch about 125 yards off across the road, the last remaining outpost of a prominent Big City family's ranch. Show More Sentences Dr Addyman said York had been the centre of a vast Viking empire in the west, and was still considered by hordes of Norwegian visitors as a little outpost of Norway. The outpost was approximately one-half mile from the crossing and consisted of two existing buildings converted into a hospital and a commissary storehouse. Even at that time, there was a bit of unrest in the area, so an army outpost had been set up on the island with 14 soldiers and two of their wives. To get this gun to the military outpost, we'll need to drive. Through a volatile century of international relations beginning in the 1870s, the coastal area of this land was a military outpost dedicated to the protection of the bay. After the attack on the outpost, he kept the battalion moving. Plus, each base has its own set of resources, and so if you want to keep troops at an outpost or stronghold, you have to continually ferry food to them so they don't starve. The Atlantis successfully docked with the space station on Wednesday and Sellers and the crew joined those aboard the orbiting outpost for dinner to mark the occasion. Jim then finds others before chancing on a military outpost in the north. The restaurant is an outpost of Arts and Crafts-style elegance. The countdown has begun to a celebration of York's past as a vital outpost of a multi-national empire, with the city's second annual Roman Festival. Not bad for a city that started out as a military outpost of Auckland. So even as NASA and its international partners build their brand-new space station Alpha, there is a detailed plan to safely deep-six the outpost when its days are over. I have a picture of some ice-bound outpost in my mind at the moment. They will amass forces big enough to overwhelm one of the combat outposts, then wait for the outpost to call for reinforcements. Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails. From that remote outpost, they were to expand the partisan war in Burma by advising and supporting the Kachins in conducting guerrilla warfare behind Japanese lines. The Cubans pulled up to the outpost and crammed the survivors into an open-body jeep and a pickup truck. Once in the Arctic, the eight-man team will begin a thirty-day 300-mile ski trek to the Pole from Resolute Bay, a remote outpost off mainland Canada. I've seen leadership schools set out on the fringes, including one in an outpost of Jerusalem that teaches would-be messiahs to lead in the coming apocalypse. Show More Sentences In its heyday, Visegrad was a major outpost for the Roman Empire. He resigned his command after a failed attack on a British outpost at Lacolle Mills. The channel port, although a valuable strategic outpost, was a drain on Charles's limited finances. In 1807 Napoleon created a powerful outpost of his empire in Central Europe. Six main ferry services provide regular access to various outpost communities or shorten travel distances. The challenge for early writers was that Chicago was a frontier outpost that transformed into a global metropolis in the span of two generations. While there is some tourism there, Norwegian authorities limit access to the outpost to minimize impact on the scientific work. Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps. The fleet was thought to be sailing safely west of Ushant, an island outpost off the coast of Brittany. It was an important trading port and defensive outpost of Winchester, at the site of modern Bitterne Manor. It was a regional religion based in northwestern Europe, with an outpost in the sparsely settled United States. During the first decade of the 10th century, a large trade outpost was formed on the Dnieper in Gnezdovo, near modern Smolensk. The French also staked out an East African outpost on the route to French Indochina. The outpost phenomenon probably accounts for many cases of polydomy, defined as the dispersal of the colony into multiple nest sites. In December 1402, Timur came into direct conflict with a small European outpost on the Anatolian coast. The new sea arm stretched all the way to Damme, a city that became the commercial outpost for Bruges. Kamaran had been inhabited for centuries when the Portuguese established an outpost there in the 16th century. The archipelago was Spain's outpost in the orient and Manila became the capital of the entire Spanish East Indies. The outpost at Nootka Sound, on Vancouver Island, was considered part of the province of California. The site of Cholula is just west of the modern city of Puebla and served as a trading outpost. Show More Sentences The Wars of Religion precluded a return voyage, and the outpost was abandoned. While there is some tourism at the village, Norwegian authorities limit the access to the outpost to minimise impact on the scientific work. The settlement served mostly as an outpost for trading in fur with the native Lenape tribespeople, but was later replaced by Fort Orange. Finding no gold but many hostile natives, the Dutch soon abandoned the outpost. The House of Hope remained an outpost, but it was steadily swallowed up by waves of English settlers. After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost. The outpost near the border was used as a staging area for the army's invasion. About 400 miles east of Cape Town, this city of about 75,000 people was once a hippie outpost but has gradually evolved into a weekend destination for wealthy Capetonians. Lee Kuan Yew, the Singaporean official who transformed the island outpost into one of the wealthiest and least corrupt countries in Asia, died in hospital on Monday morning. As for the illegal settlement of Mevo Dotan, to the west of Jenin, a road was built in the buffer zone to connect the settlement with a new outpost nearby, noted Haartez. In the Persian epic The Shahnameh, the fact that the hero Rostam lives in Sistan, a remote outpost of the empire, explains his anomalous features. Beijing has demanded that Manila remove a rusty, World War II-vintage landing ship it grounded on the shoal in 1999 that serves as an outpost for Philippine troops. Fort Loudoun became the westernmost British outpost to that date. Consequently, in April 1955 a request was sent to the Admiralty to seize the island and declare UK sovereignty lest it become an outpost for foreign observers. The new Croatian government set up military outpost in the city itself. In 751 the Lombard King Aistulf conquered most of the Exarchate of Ravenna, leaving Venice a lonely and increasingly autonomous Byzantine outpost. San Miguel Island was used as a bombing range and Santa Barbara Island as an early warning outpost under the presumed threat of a Japanese attack on California. However, many historians think it unlikely that there was a large settlement which would be named 'Antverpia', but more something like an outpost with a river crossing. From the Isangile Falls, five falls from the foot, they beached the canoes and Lady Alice and left the river, aiming for the Portuguese outpost of Boma via land. In need of an outpost to protect their sea lanes, the Portuguese built up and fortified the city, where remnants of their colonial architectural style still exist. Show More Sentences Furthermore, the Cape was unpopular among VOC employees, who regarded it as a barren and insignificant outpost with little opportunity for advancement. In June of the same year Blake captured the Isles of Scilly, the last outpost of the Royalist navy, for which he again received Parliament's thanks. Scholars assume that the legend must have journeyed from Venice, through its Balkan colonies, finally reaching a last outpost in this Slavic language. The outpost did not have enough ammunition to resist a determined assault. During the Siege of Petropavlovsk, 988 men with a mere 68 guns managed to defend the outpost against 6 ships with 206 guns and 2,540 French and British soldiers. The University of Pristina was established as an independent institution in 1970, ending a long period when the institution had been run as an outpost of Belgrade University. In 1988, an outpost in north west England opened as Tate Liverpool. During the expedition, men led by his top commander ransacked a Spanish outpost, in violation of both the terms of his pardon and a peace treaty with Spain. A few years ago it was a dirt-poor outpost populated by rural migrants. Fury of the Feywild, the first Module for Neverwinter, is a free content expansion that chronicles an attempt by Fomorian Giants to seize the Elven outpost of Sharandar. Examples from Classical Literature Our ears are first assailed by a few shrill, currish barks at intervals, like the outpost firing of skirmishing parties. Further, being a man of guile, he understood the ways of the outpost carabinero. Already the English had struck at Santa Catalina, and that mission outpost was abandoned soon thereafter. But it was a desert outpost then, a catch-all for the human drift which every whirlwind of discovery sweeps along. She had only one sentinel on the outpost of her spirit, and that was the sense of touch and feeling. While the fight was raging on the plain, weber with his outpost was driven in. After which he inquired if Lieutenant Comminges were not the commanding officer at the outpost. An umpire should be with each outpost and with each scouting patrol. Such are the main characteristics of this curious little outpost on the shores of England as it appears at the present time. It was still in the boy's mind to travel to the south, and circle back to the coast in search of another outpost of civilization. The outpost at Burlington, on hearing the news, retreated to Princeton. Several thousand mosquitos are assiduously eating the outpost. It takes rank with Brest as the western outpost of modern France. Dumfounded, the Spanish outpost, under cover of a hedge, gapes after them. Hinsdale, or Dummer's Fort, was the outpost on the Connecticut. The British outpost at Sunbury was ordered to retreat to Savannah. Holt was formerly known as Lyons, and was a Roman outpost of Chester. This was merely an outpost strategy, laid as they passed along. It was proposed to build an outpost of Weald there, against blueskins. Northcom stands for Northern Command, just as Southcom stands for Southern Command, the notorious outpost of the Pentagon in Latin America. Show More Sentences Cautiously and after infinite patience Tarzan passed the final outpost. This spot appears to be the outpost of the fertile country, and it would be difficult to say to what natural causes such an abrupt change in the character of the soil is due. And thus came Tarzan of the Apes to the first outpost of civilization. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of outpost? Words that rhyme with outpost What is the plural of outpost? What is the noun for outpost? Translations for outpost Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words outport outpolling outpolled outpoll outpoint outplayed outposts outpour outpoured outpouring outpourings outpower 7-letter Words Starting With o ou out outp outpo outpos