outward

Example Sentences

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This occurs when continental crust gradually stretches outward from a central point.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

As it feeds, it appears to drive streams of gas outward from the galaxy's core.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

Dwayne Johnson’s performance in “The Smashing Machine,” for all the film’s flaws, cleverly reconciled the dissonance between the outward images of masculine power and internal feelings of self-loathing.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

Underlying all that is the fragile ego of a state whose outward brassiness is often a cover for an inferiority complex stoked by its glittering neighbor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

In those days of May, before the story from France was fully understood, before the bombing of the city in September, London had the outward signs, but not yet the mentality, of war.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan