Wondering how to use Outpost in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as post or outstation.
Outpost meaning
- A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.
- The body of troops manning such a post.
- An outlying settlement.
Synonyms of Outpost
Using Outpost
- The main meaning on this page is: A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops. | The body of troops manning such a post. | An outlying settlement.
- Useful related words include: post, outstation, station, frontier settlement.
- In the example corpus, outpost often appears in combinations such as: outpost in, outpost of, the outpost.
Context around Outpost
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Outpost
- In this selection, "outpost" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, police, white, blue, players, strongly and visited stand out and add context to how "outpost" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a colonial outpost of the and a confederate outpost during the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "outpost" sits close to words such as ala, analogy and archipelago, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with outpost
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Also allows certain plants to be cultivated at an outpost. (10 words)
In response, ranks from Arakaka Police Outpost, fully dressed in uniform, proceeded to Melville’s home. (16 words)
It said the country was not a colonial outpost of the US and would never be one. (17 words)
Guwahati, Jan 6: A team from the Assam directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption on Friday laid a trap on the premises of a police outpost under Gogamukh police station in Dhemaji district and apprehended a police constable over a bribery charge. (42 words)
Fighting erupted at 9 am on Monday when 10 PDF groups attacked the Badu police outpost where around 30 soldiers and police were stationed, said Ko Zayar Lwin, a leader of the 96 Soldiers PDF group that joined the raid. (40 words)
A remote outpost on the Mormon Trail and Lincoln Highway is now the Cornhusker State’s sun and sand haven thanks to the 20 Fremont Lakes along the Platte River on the town’s western edge. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
The first caravans have already been planted in the so-called “white outpost” and are in the process of being placed in the “blue outpost” as well.
Also allows certain plants to be cultivated at an outpost.
A remote outpost on the Mormon Trail and Lincoln Highway is now the Cornhusker State’s sun and sand haven thanks to the 20 Fremont Lakes along the Platte River on the town’s western edge.
By selecting an outpost, players can spend gold to build a few structures like a work camp, stone walls, and a watch tower.
Chinese and Philippine ships have routinely played cat-and-mouse around the shoal as a handful of Filipino troops on the outpost, a marooned and crumbling navy ship, require monthly rations.
Doubling down on the retail side, Crafty Ramen now also makes heat-and-eat frozen ramen pucks, which you can find in a fridge at their brand-new Ossington outpost.
Dr Payne will be in the Orkney islands with her family this Christmas and then she her sights on St Helena, a remote volcanic outpost in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Fighting erupted at 9 am on Monday when 10 PDF groups attacked the Badu police outpost where around 30 soldiers and police were stationed, said Ko Zayar Lwin, a leader of the 96 Soldiers PDF group that joined the raid.
Guwahati, Jan 6: A team from the Assam directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption on Friday laid a trap on the premises of a police outpost under Gogamukh police station in Dhemaji district and apprehended a police constable over a bribery charge.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s go-to workout guru offers classes at two locations in the Hamptons; there’s the Sag Harbor outpost at 1 Bay Street; alongside Tracy Anderson’s longtime Water Mill studio.
He was speaking at the Evyatar outpost, strongly stating, “I understand the hard feelings, but this isn’t the way.
However, the six-year-old Pearl Street outpost’s eclectic high-end threads may intimidate many Coloradans, whose fashion comfort zone falls somewhere between the North Face and Patagonia.
If the player ignores the other two options, they can interact with the Barbarian Outpost in other ways, without losing progress towards its City-State conversion.
In November, Mexico City’s beloved cocktail outpost visited Fairmont Pacific Rim to create an unforgettable Día de los Muertos experience.
In one scene in the film, captured mercenaries working on French instructions are brought before the United Nations after attacking a Wakandan outpost in Mali seeking to plunder mineral resources.
In response, ranks from Arakaka Police Outpost, fully dressed in uniform, proceeded to Melville’s home.
Inside the fort are guns left over from the fighting plus history lessons of what the fort looked like before the bombing and then as a Confederate outpost during the war.
In the early 1900s, his great-grandfather was mayor of Bend, then a newly incorporated outpost in central Oregon where timber prospectors were scooping up forestlands.
Israeli occupation troops killed a Palestinian man near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, for allegedly trying to attack a soldier at a military outpost.
It said the country was not a colonial outpost of the US and would never be one.
Common combinations with outpost
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- outpost in 37×
- outpost of 26×
- the outpost 21×
- an outpost 18×
- outpost and 8×
- police outpost 8×
- military outpost 8×
- outpost on 6×
- border outpost 5×
- army outpost 4×