outlying area

Example Sentences

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First you have a kind of broad outlying area — how they’re managing fuel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025

Seven weeks after law enforcement extracted him from this outlying area of the Northeast, community members said they remain baffled.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023

The jet crashed into houses in an outlying area, but injured nobody on the ground.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022

Ulannbaatar confirmed two cases of community transmission on Nov. 9 and another in an outlying area on Thursday.

From Washington Times • Nov. 13, 2020

By this time, the Science Community was a city of a million inhabitants, with a vast outlying area of farms and gardens.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Bates, Harry