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
He brought two sober seamen with him, who looked as though they had been outward-bound for a very long time.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
