Example sentences for: outpost

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

  • Hawaii, as America’s western outpost and major Pacific military base, was ruled by martial law.

  • The Romans built their most advanced outpost on the Iberian peninsula, but left nothing of consequence in Madrid.

  • •Formentera, Ibiza’s diminutive neighbour just one hour’s ferry-boat ride (or 25 minutes by hydrofoil) to the south, is an island apart — in some ways more like a desert island than a satellite or outpost of Ibiza.

  • Today the town, known as Silves, (see page 38) is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.

  • Bragança is a remote outpost, but one with a grand history.


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