outward-bound

Example Sentences

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In terms of performance, the bank scored higher net interest income, a closely-watched benchmark measuring the difference between revenue from lending and outward-bound interest payments.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

On distant seas, their dragon-prows went gleaming outward-bound ship.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2015

IT IS hard to rise to the top in business without doing an outward-bound course.

From Economist • Oct. 2, 2014

That "path of gold", its suddenness and steadiness captured in the single word, "straight", welcomes a traveller now firmly outward-bound.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2013

I did be picked up the next day by an outward-bound East Indiaman, when there was little life left in me.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus