How to Use outpost in a Sentence

outpost

noun
  • The city was established as a military outpost in the 1800s.
  • 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
  • But the orbiting outpost is set to retire by the end of the decade.
    — Brendan Byrne, NPR, 1 Aug. 2025
  • One Dalton Street, which opened in May 2019, is the brand's second outpost in the city.
    — Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2022
  • An outpost of Gjelina in New York has been in the works for nearly a decade.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Ralph’s The terrace at the Ralph’s outpost in Paris (one of five locations around the world).
    — Jade Simon, Vogue, 21 June 2024
  • The sales success led to the decision to open its own outpost.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • That gains her access to a back room that turns out to be a secret outpost of her covert unit.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The outpost had been attacked by drones and rocket fire.
    — Kurt Chirbas, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The boost from the thrusters placed the orbital outpost at the correct altitude for the Soyuz capsule to dock.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • This will mark the fourth outpost of Dumpling Time and is part of a larger expansion push.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The military outpost was abandoned at the start of the Civil War.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 19 July 2021
  • Of the 12 new restaurants and bars that opened in Nashville over the past two months, five are outposts from other cities.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 10 July 2025
  • Spent eight days at the palatial beach outpost in Bradenton.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 May 2021
  • The first is the eponymous Fouquet’s, the second outpost of the beloved Parisian brasserie that initially opened in 1899.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The settlers had decided to return and camp in the outpost.
    — Fox News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The New York galley has opened an outpost just behind the Chateau Marmont.
    — Abigail Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
  • That killing, which is unsolved, prompted Funai to add armed guards to its outpost on the Itaquaí.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • 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
  • Mullins tells us more about his brand, the new Paris outpost, and his expansion plans for Workshop.
    — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • This remote outpost looks pretty snazzy when the camera zooms out and leans on CGI.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The new outpost retains the same warm woods as its original Marais store, opened last year, and takes cues from the brand’s workshop.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Centuries passed, the outpost grew, and by the early 1800s Bangkok had taken its modern form.
    — Jenny Adams, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The area remained a remote outpost for decades, and didn’t get electricity until 1994.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Israel is changing in ways that are challenging its image as an outpost of secular, liberal democracy in the Middle East.
    — Marc Champion, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2025

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