outward

Example Sentences

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Dwayne Johnson’s performance in “The Smashing Machine,” for all the film’s flaws, cleverly reconciled the dissonance between the outward images of masculine power and internal feelings of self-loathing.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

The rest of the star is blasted outward into space as an expanding cloud of extremely hot gas.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Underlying all that is the fragile ego of a state whose outward brassiness is often a cover for an inferiority complex stoked by its glittering neighbor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Several are surrounded by ejecta blankets, debris blasted outward during the original impacts.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

I’d had so many careful, sensible conversations at this point, with so many people, about how to extract myself from a career in which, by all outward measures, I was flourishing.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama