Thesaurus / out-of-doors

out-of-doors

How to use out-of-doors in a sentence

For days after I returned I wandered about out-of-doors in a gay irresponsible mood, and carolled all over the house.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

Textures and surface qualities, local or personal colors, lose their significance to the figure out-of-doors.

THE PAINTER IN OILDANIEL BURLEIGH PARKHURST

Out-of-doors the color looked bright and light, and when you get it in-doors it looks dark and gray, and perhaps muddy and dead.

THE PAINTER IN OILDANIEL BURLEIGH PARKHURST

And now all these things were ours—Henriette's and mine—without our having had to stir out-of-doors to get them.

MRS. RAFFLESJOHN KENDRICK BANGS

They talked of school and study, and Latin lessons that were so hard to learn when the out-of-doors called.

Curious little sketches describing the early lifetime, or “childhood,” of the little creatures out-of-doors.

But in agreeable weather it is the truest hospitality to keep him out-of-doors.

And Jass, to-day they 're going to have their last out-of-doors tea for this year, you know, as it's getting cold.

ROBIN REDBREASTMARY LOUISA MOLESWORTH

It's just as warm and nice as can be out-of-doors, real springy, and I know the way to the wood lot.

The Doctor was one of those men who could best bear anxiety out-of-doors.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985