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Example sentences for "outsider"

Lexicographically close words:
outshines; outshining; outshone; outshoot; outside; outsiders; outsides; outskirt; outskirts; outspake
  1. She grew purple in the face with indignation and astonishment, that a casual outsider should venture to address her; so much so, indeed, that for a second I almost regretted my well-meant interposition.

  2. When this work is going on those engaged in it want outsiders out of the way, and if you're a wise outsider you want to get out of the way.

  3. All this talk is from a lofty and patriotic standpoint and the one thing that impresses the outsider is the intense loyalty to the flag.

  4. Dandy had been a rank outsider and had only cropped up in the betting at the eleventh hour, so to speak.

  5. He had practically no security to offer his bankers, and dared not do anything that would suggest to an outsider that he was in want of ready cash.

  6. I'll run no risks that can be avoided and, in particular, trust no outsider to look after the supplies for our next trip," Andrew said grimly.

  7. Then if there's a loss on every ton, it puzzles an outsider like myself to understand how you expect to make a profit by producing a very large quantity.

  8. Jockey Moseby Jones had brought a despised outsider home a winner by half a length.

  9. But Norham, the outsider and dilettante, was conscious of a kindled mind.

  10. Any agreeable outsider of whatever creed--Renan or Loisy or Tyrrell--might have been thus welcomed at the Palace.

  11. There certainly did seem to an outsider a want of heart about the service, but that might have been due to the emptiness of the pews.

  12. The outsider left off listening and began to think of the congregation.

  13. It was the acquiescent bow of the utter outsider who gives no opinion at all on the subject under discussion, because he does not possess any.

  14. In a thing like this no outsider can give an opinion worth having.

  15. The outsider never knows why any two people marry and is content to believe in the existence of an affinity hidden from his view.

  16. I am glad I won, for it wouldn't have been to the credit of the club to have an outsider carry off two prizes.

  17. Of course he had opportunities, as bookkeeper, which an outsider could not have.

  18. You were once an outsider like your neighbours, I suppose?

  19. My dear boy, I may be a galoot about literature, but you'll always be an outsider in business.

  20. I don't intend to write for you as an outsider (have I not put almost my last quid into your blooming Company?

  21. Most of his speech would not be very comprehensible to an outsider for it largely consisted of an ingenious dove-tailing of the sentences in the Latin and Greek Arnold.

  22. It is only Englishmen who have the happy privilege of speaking frankly about their neighbours, and only they who are never satisfied unless an outsider likes England better than his own country.

  23. However, it is not uncommon for people to attach more weight to the opinion of an outsider than to that of the relatives whom they see every day.

  24. An outsider cannot pronounce on the rights and wrongs of the question, but the feeling engendered was evident to the most casual observer.

  25. Scaife; "you make me feel more of an outsider than good old Snowball.

  26. They are far more sure and far more uniform than the outsider imagines; technical discussion and technical appreciation have always a reasoned foundation of agreement.

  27. Chemistry also has graphic formulas, of a kind that look complicated to the outsider but that are really more instructive than the others,—formulas which show in what manner, under what laws, the atoms are bound together.

  28. Were they all overdoing it a bit--this reacting of their hostility to the sole remaining outsider of their compact little group?

  29. An outsider would hardly have had access to Judge Marshall's pistol and Maxim silencer," he reminded her.

  30. Just at the end a howling sneak and cad and outsider called Jarman came, and lagged us all, including Tempest.

  31. But considering what a rank outsider he was, I suppose he did his best.

  32. I was sorry he had not remained to witness the fact that I was not quite the outsider he took me for.

  33. To the outsider this disparagement of the Dutch nose might have seemed a case of pot calling kettle black.

  34. Don't treat me as if I were some outsider with no claim upon you.

  35. The fellow from the safe company showed me how the combination was worked, so I fixed the new numbers to suit myself, in order that no outsider would know how to open the safe.

  36. The seminary management must have made a thorough investigation, and if they haven't discovered anything, I don't see how an outsider can solve the mystery.

  37. It will be seen that the advent of the outsider had been a real portent.

  38. We are all indignant at being suspected; yet it seems strange that an outsider should be so interested.

  39. He does not seem to have grown any worse since we came, so far as an outsider can judge, but he must feel his weakness increasing.

  40. The matter which requires the greatest attention in connection with an execution is the allowance of a suitable drop for each person executed, and the adjustment of this matter is not nearly so simple as an outsider would imagine.


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