Example sentences for: outpost

How can you use “outpost” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Over the years, advertisers have tried all kinds of tactics to attract customers, and more recently those tactics have seemed to cover the full spectrum of the possible, including the utterly oblique (Infiniti's first campaign), the willfully tacky (Mentos), the memorable-for-memorability's-sake (Outpost.com's flying gerbils and ravenous wolves), and the self-loathing (Sega's Japanese ads for Dreamcast, which I wrote about here last week).

  • By a.d.   1300 they had erased the vestiges of a Marquesan outpost and developed a Hawaiian society of their own.

  • This campaign dislodged Western aid workers, several thousand U.S. troops stationed there, and a CIA outpost . It also provided an opportunity for Saddam's intelligence groups to infiltrate Kurdish ranks.

  • Earlier this summer, an out-of-town friend and I were taking in the Ballard Seafood Festival, an annual celebration of music, troll dolls, and pickled herring in the Seattle neighborhood that serves as Scandinavia's unofficial outpost.

  • The war left Portugal further weakened, and in 1822 its major empire outpost, Brazil, declared independence.


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