How to Use out for in a Sentence

out for

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  • To dispose of the plants safely, put them in brown landscape waste bags and set them out for pickup.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Others stall out for one reason or another and never make it.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 5 July 2026
  • Kelly allowed the first two batters to reach in the ninth before closing it out for his fourth save.
    — ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • One option that he is said to be considering entails flying the three of them out for just one day.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 29 June 2026
  • Those who can pony up the money to play for championships will survive and the rest will be left to figure it out for themselves.
    — Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • According to antiques experts, these are the items to keep an eye out for at yard sales and thrift stores in 2026.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
  • Previously, another wrist joint was replaced and both of the arm's end effectors were swapped out for spares.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 30 June 2026
  • Peter seeks him out for help, which explains why his assistant might be calling Spider-Man.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • The two shoreline explorers were out for a languid stroll in their bathing suits on the tip of Conimicut Point.
    — Mark Reynolds, The Providence Journal, 3 July 2026
  • Scientists cannot agree on how this shift from nonlife to life, or abiogenesis, happened, but some have turned their sights on trying it out for themselves in the lab.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • Fraley has been out for more than a month with a hernia and Jonny DeLuca missed 22 games with a hamstring strain.
    — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
  • Every guest room in the hotel comes with a full kitchen, perfect for travelers, especially families, who may not want to eat out for every meal.
    — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2026
  • Outside medical settings, people seek it out for puffiness, bloating and post-workout recovery.
    — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • Developers for Aldi are getting ready to go out for bid and identify contractors to build the store, but no specific timelines have been set for the project.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • On a remote Maine logging road, a couple out for a day of fishing unexpectedly encountered a black bear chasing a frantic moose calf toward their truck.
    — Kate Brumback, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The University of Minnesota says food should only be out for an hour when temperatures top 90.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • National assessment scores, which are not yet out for this year, show that Florida’s eighth graders have been trending below the national average in math for the last few years.
    — Austin Horn july 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • My company has an open sandbox where customers take early development concepts out for a spin, interacting with prototypes.
    — Rajesh Rudraradhya, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Keep an eye out for the owners’ next project, Arkouda House, slated to open right on the edge of downtown early in the summer of 2026.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026
  • This is not exclusively a Ronaldo issue, and simply swapping him out for Goncalo Ramos would be an overly simplistic fix.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • While some soon-to-be-retirees are called to the beach or the mountains, others are drawn to lake living and all its perks, like watching sunsets on the dock, grilling outside, and taking the pontoon boat out for daily cruises.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026
  • Shamet was bandied about as a possible rotation player during the 2024-25 season, but a shoulder injury knocked him out for the first couple of months of the season.
    — Tom Rende, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Captain Dhananjaya da Silva, who made 120 in Sri Lanka's first innings of 308, was out for a seven-ball duck.
    — ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • Schools are out for the summer, but the batteries in more than 200 electric school buses are helping some people in the United States find relief when temperatures soar.
    — Lisa Baertlein, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • Every summer, a number of streets around New York City transform on Saturdays—with honking cars and slow moving traffic replaced with families with strollers, friends out for a walk, bikes weaving through.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 1 July 2026
  • While others like it were converted to road duty after their racing careers concluded, this one wasn’t, and reportedly saw little use until 2006, when its owner began bringing it out for public display.
    — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 2 July 2026
  • During the first six games of 2025, with Worthy out for three, then limited, and Rice suspended, Thornton made 13 catches for 272 yards and three touchdowns.
    — Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
  • But the former Bayern Munich player has suffered various injuries at Madrid, including a ruptured ACL in December 2023 that kept him out for over a year.
    — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • Then came the invocation delivered by the Bishop of Washington, and then the Secretary of the Smithsonian, Dillon Ripley, welcomed everyone who had come out for the ceremony.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
  • With Miami’s Michael Beasley — former Miami Heat forward and reigning BIG3 Player of the Week — serving a suspension and out for the game, the 305 struggled to double down on their dominance over Chicago in a rematch of last year’s title game.
    — Ava Dicecca, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026

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