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adjective

outlying

relatively far from a center or middle

In a sentence

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

  • The ferry serves four outlying islands twice a week, and in winter the schedule drops to a single sailing.

    Travel

  • Wages in the outlying districts lag the capital by a third, which keeps the night buses full before dawn.

    Economics

  • Rangers count nests in the outlying marshes each April, hiking two hours past the last road to reach them.

    Environment

  • The firm designed a school for an outlying suburb where the nearest bus stop was still a twenty minute walk.

    Architecture

  • Candidates rarely visit the outlying provinces, so voters there decide based on the one rally that comes every four years.

    Politics

  • Nurses at the outlying clinics see patients who would otherwise travel five hours to reach the district hospital.

    Medicine

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