outpost

Example Sentences

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He was accused of setting fire to a government building and to several cars, and of attacking a security guard’s outpost by throwing Molotov cocktails.

From New York Times

But the new radiocarbon date for the Blacks Fork horse shows it was raised, tethered, and buried sometime between 1600 and 1650, many hundreds of kilometers north of Paa’ko and Spanish outposts in New Mexico.

From Science Magazine

Even though they don’t have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, many countries — including the United States — maintain outposts in Taiwan that function as embassies in all but name.

From Washington Post

At first, most scholars thought that the civilization, with its lavish mosques and ornate housewares, must have been the achievement of a foreign ruling class that established outposts in East Africa.

From New York Times

A similar coolant leak was spotted in February on the Russian Progress MS-21 cargo ship docked at the space outpost, raising suspicions of a manufacturing flaw.

From Seattle Times