OUTPOST in a Sentence

Learn OUTPOST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for OUTPOST, such as:

1. They were the outposts of the Snow Queen.
2. Some soldiers waited at an outpost deep in the forest.
3. The frigid, inhospitable Aleutian Islands are bleak military outposts.
4. Denisov, as was his wont, rode out in front of the outposts, parading his courage.
5. That little store was the last outpost for motorists before they entered the desert.

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 Meanings and Examples of OUTPOST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
outpost
 n.  a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops; a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
Classic Sentence:
1  In front of this position, they say, a fortified outpost was set up on the Shevardino mound to observe the enemy.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIX
2  At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI
3  On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two days' march and the enemy's outposts after a brief interchange of shots retreated.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI
4  Denisov, as was his wont, rode out in front of the outposts, parading his courage.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
5  This was a plan of campaign he had devised while serving at the outposts during the retreat.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XV
6  They were the outposts of the Snow Queen.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
7  He traversed the line of the principal outposts, halting here and there to talk to the sentinels.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
Example Sentence:
1  Some soldiers waited at an outpost deep in the forest.
2  That little store was the last outpost for motorists before they entered the desert.
3  The frigid, inhospitable Aleutian Islands are bleak military outposts.