How to Use outsider in a Sentence

outsider

noun
  • She felt like an outsider in her new school.
  • She was a rank outsider who managed to win.
  • To outsiders, the ritual may seem strange.
  • An outsider defeated the champion!
  • Weiss has tapped outsiders to do so.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
  • The rest of us were like outsiders, in a sense.
    — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • They had long been made to feel like outsiders in their own faith.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Lots of outsiders have moved in, though not as many as in the book.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • For Buchanan, trust in outsiders is hard to come by.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • And outsiders are not the only threat.
    — Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Bitcoin is still the outsider—but that may change.
    — Georgii Verbitskii, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But there are two types of outsider art, one made from below and one from above.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Anyone who’s felt like the outsider.
    — Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Please give me an outsider’s opinion.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The outsider art has gone mainstream.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Who is one of the top outsiders who will set up the transactions?
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • And was there some value to coming at these places as an outsider?
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The opacity of the palace means no outsiders can know for sure.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 26 June 2025
  • And to be an outsider was very dangerous and maybe even meant death.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Gauff was in with a shot; Świątek appeared to be the outsider.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • It was built by outsiders who found one another through sound.
    — Sunita Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • He was seen as an outsider being brought in to shake up the Navy.
    — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But what if the crime wasn’t committed by a stranger or outsider?
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 May 2025
  • Yet, seeing your home through the eyes of an outsider can be a delight.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 3 July 2021
  • Both were outsiders who left their homeland to conquer the world.
    — NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Youssef makes Jeff bro-ish enough to hang with this crowd but outsider enough to chafe at its hubris.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
  • These days, a lot of voters prefer outsiders.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • Over the long term, too much reliance on outsiders can hollow out the in‑house skill base.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The visual aspect of it will be from his point of view, not from an outsider’s point of view.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Maybe an outsider would call it poetic.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026

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