How to Use outbound in a Sentence

outbound

adjective
  • The airline has canceled all outbound flights.
  • Retirees are a big part of the outbound moves in both states.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2026
  • New Jersey has held the top outbound spot for the past three years.
    — Bethany Blankley, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2021
  • All inbound and outbound flights have stopped for the time being.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The email also doesn’t include any outbound links for users to click on.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 19 Oct. 2021
  • To see the top inbound and outbound states, click here or view the map below.
    — Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com, 2 Jan. 2018
  • During the outage, inbound and outbound flights came to a halt.
    — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The agency said that inbound and outbound trains were stopped near Kedzie.
    — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • How did this impact schedules for inbound and outbound flights?
    — Carla Solorzano, Dallas News, 25 July 2022
  • But what if a disabled passenger needs to switch from the inbound to the outbound side?
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
  • From there, those parcels on the same route can be loaded onto an outbound truck in last-in, first-out order.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The crash caused a traffic tie-up on outbound Riverside Drive.
    — Chris Mayhew, The Enquirer, 8 June 2021
  • An outbound Belgian relief ship, the Imo, had strayed off course.
    — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
  • An outbound Belgian relief ship, the Imo, had strayed off course.
    — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 15 July 2017
  • China was also the world's single biggest spender on outbound tourism.
    — Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Bicycles and pedestrians will use only the path on the outbound side of the bridge.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • At least one outbound BNSF train was canceled.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Explain to her that the IRS seldom makes outbound phone calls.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 3 May 2018
  • But her name was not linked to any of the outbound flights from Newark airport at the time, Marshals said.
    — Fox News, 20 July 2022
  • Each of Caggiano's outbound flights corresponds to a paper strip in a plastic sleeve.
    — Andrew Blum, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2009
  • The outbound trip went smoothly, but our return became a disaster.
    — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • There are both inbound and outbound state visits for various countries.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Much will depend on how long the conflict drags on, but for now, there’s likely to be more outbound deals from the region than inbound.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In Kansas City, the changes are focused on speeding up the loading of outbound trucks.
    — Evan Ramstad, Star Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • At some point, workers will have to shift the express bus lane to the adjacent lane, taking out two outbound lanes in the mornings.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • In its report, Redfin also looked at the places with the most outbound traffic to see where people most wanted to leave.
    — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The passenger used all legs of the outbound flight, but did not catch the Frankfurt to Oslo return flight.
    — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
  • Passengers will be able to change their flights up to 14 days before their outbound flight, according to a tweet.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2020
  • New York did see a surge in outbound migration, but that was a trend that started before the pandemic.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • On the outbound side, pickers pulled items, scanning them and dropping them into totes that move on conveyers to the lower floors.
    — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2019

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