outward-bound
Example Sentences
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In terms of performance, the bank scored higher net interest income, a closely-watched benchmark measuring the difference between revenue from lending and outward-bound interest payments.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
On distant seas, their dragon-prows went gleaming outward-bound ship.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2015
IT IS hard to rise to the top in business without doing an outward-bound course.
From Economist ● Oct. 2, 2014
That "path of gold", its suddenness and steadiness captured in the single word, "straight", welcomes a traveller now firmly outward-bound.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2013
For the same reason it was necessary that we should protect them, and we did this as far as practicable without causing undue delays in forming outward-bound convoys.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
