Example sentences for: outposts

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

  • In Israel, the liberal Ha'aretz led its front page Monday with a report that political pressure at Cabinet level was preventing the army from taking action against at least five new hilltop outposts that settlers have built in the West Bank since the Wye agreement was signed two weeks ago.

  • The governor of New Orleans, 23-year-old Don Bernardo de Gálvez, seized the chance to help the colonists in their struggle against George III, and led raiding parties that kept the British outposts along the Mississippi on the defensive.

  • The Romanization of Gaul sent the most energetic warriors to defend the outposts of the empire while their families settled down to work the land or build towns such as Lyon, Orange, Arles, and Nîmes, and the first great highways between them.

  • Many of the villages and towns along the way are small industrial outposts for the suburbs of Cataño.

  • In an editorial, Ha'aretz urged Barak to help to create a new atmosphere of trust by unilaterally dismantling the outposts illegally established by Israelis on hilltops outside existing West Bank settlements in "a wild, catch-as-catch-can land grab" during the run-up to the Wye agreement.


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