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
“It’s an outlying area out there, and sometimes a lone ranger gets going on his own and feels like he has ownership,” Sargeant said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2017
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 Harry Bates
