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
The jet crashed into houses in an outlying area, but injured nobody on the ground.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022
I would much rather drive to an outlying area to dine or shop.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2020
“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 Bates, Harry
