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
No conflicts for Tiler Peck’s incisive Sanguinic: She was all full-throttle, outward-bound momentum.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2018
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
Some outward-bound schooners arrived at their places of destination along the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia coasts, laden with spoils from the fire, but in most cases these were got back.
From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by Stewart, George
