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adjective

external

CEFR B2

happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface

In a sentence

Six example sentences with external, each labelled with its topic.

  • The external walls take the weather, so the studio chose slate cladding that sheds rain away from the timber frame.

    Architecture

  • An external reviewer with no ties to the company read every contract, which is why the board trusted the findings.

    Business

  • Mount an external flash on the bracket, because light coming from the camera body flattens every face in the frame.

    Photography

  • Keep the backup on an external drive, since a failure inside the laptop takes the internal copy with it.

    Technology

  • An external shock, such as a jump in oil prices set abroad, can stall an economy that made no mistakes of its own.

    Economics

  • The ointment is for external use only, so the label warns against taking it by mouth in three languages.

    Medicine

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