Outlying is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OUTLYING in dictionary:

VERB:
• OUTLIE, to lie outside, be outlying
ADJECTIVE:
• situated far from a centre; remote
• distant from the main area
• Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.
• relatively far from a center or middle
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lie beyond
• present participle of outlie

Words related to OUTLYING

outlain7 outlay9 outlie6 outlies7

How to use OUTLYING in a sentence

• For miles across the plain the men who follow the trail watch the steep outlying shoulder of the Brandon Hills for a landmark.
• He skirted behind the most northerly outlying shed of the hotel, dismounted there, and threw the reins.
• They were standing back of an outlying shed, in such a position that they could not be seen from the road.
• If an exception ever came to my knowledge, it must have been the one that is said to have occurred on a former charge at one of his outlying appointments.
• He was the only son of a small farmer in one of the outlying hamlets of Drumston.
• It stood amid cornfields, on the banks of a little stream, and looked across to the fern-clad slopes of Ewieside, an outlying spur of the Lammermoors.
• Ireland interests him more, and he finally closes with a sheet of learned gossip about the outlying islands.
• The point of contact by the river with the outlying rim of the basin of the great lake is at the village of Thompson, some twenty miles distant from Duluth, on the St.
• Their homes were such as could have been seen until recently in many of the outlying parts of the country.
• The old policy of occupying outlying territory for the sake of making a show of political authority was given up.
• Unluckily, one of the outlying lookout frigates discovered him, gave chase, and overtook him.
• I went straight to the hut that was allotted to Retief in the little outlying guard-kraal, which had been given to us for a camp.
• If the ship crossed the current one way or the other she would certainly be driven ashore on some outlying spur of the island or detached sunken reef.
• She had asked for that very ambulance that very day to enable her to make the rounds of regimental hospitals in the outlying suburbs, and had been politely but positively refused.
• So, after a little study, I found that the inhabitants of Gooseville and its outlying hamlets were neither dead nor sleeping.
• The herd was counted and received on the outlying prairies, and as no steamer was due for a few days, another outfit took charge of them.
• After stopping at an outlying ranchita for refreshment, we spent the afternoon in a similar manner.
• At headquarters and outlying ranchitas on the land, there were nearly twenty families, or over a hundred persons of all ages.
• The women and children of the outlying ranchitas had not yet returned to their homes, and with our invited guests made an assembly of nearly a hundred and fifty persons.
• Ours, and others quietly slipped forth and leaped with all the advantage of surprise upon the lonely hamlets of outlying Massachusetts or New York.
• The view is equally good and the Downs westward appear to even better advantage from this outlying point.
• Not merely was he held responsible for the massacres of outlying inhabitants, whom it was impossible to protect, but in this very defence he had given cause for ill-feeling.
• Our outlying possessions must be Territories until they are Americanized, and we take it Americans know what that word means.
• This in itself proves that it is not a good example of Dickens, that it is not central, that it is an outlying province which he conquered.
• Electric trolley lines connect Spokane with the outlying towns in every direction.
• And still on, till all the outlying rocks and islands vanished, and where had been the glow and colour of life was nothing now but that strange pall-like cloud.
• We visited outlying ranches, water-holes, old adobe houses famous in one way or another as scenes of past fights of rustlers and ranchers.

Similar words containing OUTLY without suffix ing

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