OUTLET in a Sentence

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43 example sentences for OUTLET, such as:

1. Jean Valjean reached the outlet.
2. Sport provided an outlet for his energy.
3. Children need an outlet for their energy.
4. The shoe manufacturer had several outlets.
5. Sport became the perfect outlet for his aggression.

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 Meanings and Examples of OUTLET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
outlet
 n.  an opening that permits escape or release; activity that releases creative energy or emotion
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST
2  With the stones which remained they stopped up the outlet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
3  Vagrancy, that Gallic picareria, accepted the sewer as the adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, fierce and sly, through the Maubuee outlet, as into a bed-chamber.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
4  A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
5  As he approached, the outlet became more and more distinctly defined.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
6  Jean Valjean reached the outlet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
7  It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
8  If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it obstructed by a plug or a grating.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
9  Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed in that manner.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
10  The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
11  I made the tour of the room at least twenty times, in search of an outlet of some kind; but there was none.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
12  The ambition which he felt astir at times in the darkness of his soul sought no outlet.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  The old restless moodiness had again filled his breast as it had done on the night of the party, but had not found an outlet in verse.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  It needed an immense effort of his will to master the impulse which urged him to give outlet to such irritation.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  There was nobody about, and I made search for any further outlet, but there was none.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  Children need an outlet for their energy.
2  Sport provided an outlet for his energy.
3  Sport became the perfect outlet for his aggression.
4  At any rate, it shall be strong enough to search to grope an outlet from this cloud of doubt, and find the open day of certainty.
5  At one corner of the tract is a large Sultan Center wholesale outlet.
6  On the Internet, The media outlet has published a video purporting to show Wang pleading for leniency during a 2016 trial.
7  The government probe began after Christ told Go Public the fast food outlet is bringing in Filipino workers while cutting local staffers' hours and turning away dozens of seemingly qualified Canadians seeking jobs.
8  The e-mail change was first pointed out by bloggers over the weekend and publicized by media outlets Monday, leading to gripes from users, usually on their Facebook pages.
9  The shoe manufacturer had several outlets.