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Example sentences for "outlet"

Lexicographically close words:
outlawry; outlaws; outlay; outlays; outleap; outlets; outlier; outliers; outline; outlined
  1. The natural outlet from Pennsylvania was the Ohio River.

  2. This plan would be frustrated if the Americans acquired an outlet on the Gulf; furthermore, it would be jeopardized if they retained control on the upper Mississippi.

  3. Just emerging in sorrow from one of the most trying ordeals of the battle of life, with repelled longings and disappointed hopes, his pent-up youthful energies were now seeking some outlet for escape, some fresh field of action.

  4. At first it had been an outlet for the grief she felt, and which did not diminish by being kept to herself.

  5. In order to create a market for it, however, he has to have an outlet to that market.

  6. Hence there will be no outlet for your timber in back.

  7. The redwood trade is in the doldrums and will remain in them to a greater or less degree until the principal redwood centres secure a rail outlet to the markets of the country.

  8. That's the natural outlet for the timber.

  9. I propose remaining in the Wurdwan valley above a month, and having my things sent on to meet me on the Ladak road, to which I propose making my way by an outlet from the Wurdwan.

  10. Trade requiring an outlet has more frequently been the cause of bloodshed than almost any other national or international question.

  11. Upon water transit, therefore, they were obliged to depend for an outlet for the commerce of their western territory.

  12. The thing that struck me at once about them was that they were still finding an outlet for their pioneer instinct not only in their professions and their business, but in the interest they took in the new pioneer.

  13. Serbia and Bulgaria had been particularly anxious for an outlet to the sea, and in the treaty between them it had been arranged that Serbia should have an outlet on the Adriatic, while Bulgaria was to obtain an outlet on the Ægean.

  14. Serbia was given Nish, but had no outlet to the sea.

  15. Both these rivers are branches of the Missinippi, as it is the only outlet from the lake.

  16. The only known outlet to this vast body of water, which receives so many streams on its north and south shores, is the Mackenzie's River.

  17. On examination we found that there was no outlet practicable for us in this channel, and that we must retread our steps.

  18. All her unappeased instincts and repressed forces found their outlet in that direction.

  19. This stretched itself toward the eastern extremity of the island, so as to leave the outlet to the lake barely wide enough for a single vessel to pass at a time, and that not without skilful pilotage and much caution.

  20. Day and night, almost without ceasing, her thoughts had boiled and bubbled on and on, like a geyser ever struggling for outlet and ever falling vainly back upon itself.

  21. If I hadn't given my nerves an outlet I might have balked or bolted myself.

  22. We soon crossed a small river or creek, about two feet in depth, which the natives called the outlet of the Dead Sea, which led us into a large open country, with here and there a grove or cluster of trees.

  23. Liverpool is the greatest outlet for the goods manufactured in Lancashire and Yorkshire, for sale in America.

  24. The expansion of the Russian Empire has been steadily eastwards; and the further conquest and dominion have spread, the more has the necessity been felt for an outlet to the navigable seas.

  25. Still farther east, to the north of the Thian-Shan Mountains, and fed by the Ili and other streams, is Lake Balkhash, also without an outlet and very salt.

  26. Before the Chicago and Milwaukee railway was built, in Wisconsin, there was a plank road extending from Milwaukee to Watertown, and thirty miles west of Milwaukee this road crossed the outlet of Oconomowoc Lake.

  27. On the other hand, because there must be some outlet for private and independent opinion, there were many interpretations of the law, and opinions as many and as various as those who disputed concerning the right interpretation.

  28. It was built of wood, and was thrown across an opening of the dike, which furnished an outlet to the waters when agitated by the winds or swollen by a sudden influx in the rainy season.

  29. Upwards of thirty years ago, with the help of my young children, I backed all the boards that were used about my house from Allen's mill at the outlet of Silver Lake, a distance of five miles.

  30. As we entered the little path which runs directly to that outlet in the hedge marked E, I ventured to speak again: "You have reasons, or so it appears, for believing that the child was carried off through this very path?

  31. And, in every way, the most reliable safety-valve of the period is constant activity, as this is the best outlet for the many and conflicting emotions which are the source of the chief difficulties.

  32. But if the prohibitions are too general the child will be frequently tempted to break the rules, and then he will fall in his own esteem; or he will observe the rule and have too little outlet for his activity and initiative.

  33. In general it is perhaps wisest to ignore these changing moods, except where they find their outlet in offensive or vicious conduct.

  34. The figure that he had seen outside must be within these four walls, there being no other visible outlet besides the door through which Balder had entered.

  35. Her only outlet for tenderness was her solitary eye, which might well have given way under the strain thus put upon it.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outlet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.