outpost

Example Sentences

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Kronstadt is the main outpost of the Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Over the weekend, Israel announced that it had recaptured the outpost, built around 1137.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

The L.A. location will be the Santa Fe, N.M.-based immersive art and entertainment company’s fifth outpost after Denver, Las Vegas, Houston and the Dallas suburbs.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

It traces Chizuko's travels and gastronomic adventures across the colonial outpost, and the intimate relationship she develops with her Taiwanese interpreter Chizuru.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

The Lowell Observatory, as you will recall, was a bit of an oddity thanks to Percival Lowell’s obsession with Martian canals, which in the 1910s made it, in every sense, an outpost of astronomical endeavor.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson