How to Use the outback in a Sentence

the outback

noun
  • And will what happened in the outback come back to haunt them?
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2023-08-24
  • This wild frontier, described by guides as the outback of Chile, is new to the tourism game.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 2022-06-18
  • As a range of awful thoughts filled his head, Evenson worked to arrange a phone call from the outback.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2022-10-21
  • The Tasmanian tiger could start roaming the outback again.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 2022-08-18
  • My specialty has been delivering yarns from the outback.
    — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 2020-12-08
  • The cast is assembled in Broken Hill, which is in the outback in Australia.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 2022-05-24
  • Intense, bold and fearless, this cologne is up for any challenge, whether that’s a trek through the outback or a keynote presentation.
    — Dallas News, 2022-11-30
  • Such a water-intensive therapy is ill-suited to the outback, which contains some of the driest biomes in the world.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 2024-10-15
  • The disintegrating machine rained tons of debris across the outback.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 2020-09-21
  • These parts of the outback are known for cracking clay plains, ephemeral waterways, scorching summers and dramatic cycling between drought and flood.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • In an effort to help his father, Hemsworth zeroes in on social connection and takes a road trip with his father to their former home in the outback of Australia.
    — Alice Park, Time, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Winding through their western half for 220km is one of the greatest hiking paths in the outback, the Larapinta Trail.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 14 June 2026
  • An adaptation of an Australian stage play of the same name, Wilson’s directorial debut follows a city girl who moves to the outback and helps her cousin become a debutante.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 23 Nov. 2025
  • An adaptation of an Australian stage play of the same name, Wilson’s directorial debut follows a city girl who moves to the outback and helps her cousin become a debutante.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Cate Blanchett stars as a nun, Sister Eileen, who’s taken charge of a monastery and enrolls an Aboriginal boy recently ensnared in the outback.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Verla, meanwhile, gets to know the outback’s many varieties of mushrooms, tinkering with various fungi in hopes of taking revenge on the cruel Boncer.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Crowe first befriended Steve in the 1990s, and has remained close to the family since the outback legend's tragic death in 2006.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Getzin tells Live Science that only grasses from the Trioda genus grow in the outback studied in the new paper, and if more varied species had been present, the circles may have been less pronounced.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2020-10-08
  • Australian authorities and mining giant Rio Tinto are scrambling to find a small radioactive capsule lost somewhere along a near-900-mile stretch of road in the outback.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 2023-01-30
  • The children were bused in from schools all over the Barkly Region, a vast expanse of the outback that is about the size of Finland but has a population of only about 8,000 people.
    — Jenny Vrentas Isabella Moore, New York Times, 2023-08-15
  • Disembarking the plane in the city Darwin, in the northern part of Australia, I was struck by the sheer scale of this remote landscape — the ruggedness of the outback juxtaposed against the lush, green backdrop of the tropics.
    — Drew Kluska, Travel + Leisure, 2023-11-25
  • Sensing this once-great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions — rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders, and billionaire miners — move in for the kill, with billions of dollars at stake.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 June 2026
  • Parton’s Imagination Library, which provides underserved children the opportunity to learn through reading, stretches from the hills of Appalachia to the outback of Australia.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 2024-10-25
  • In the new ads, Irwin — dressed in Columbia shirt and shorts and wearing the brand’s new Tellurix Titanium OutDry footwear — dashes through the outback chased by 100 crocodiles.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
  • There in the outback, Burgett and Premcar’s engineering director, Bernie Quinn, pushed a test mule up to 120 mph over gravel tracks and sandy ruts while testing hard acceleration, cornering, and braking.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 2023-08-29
  • Browne, who played the younger version of Anya Taylor-Joy’s titular Furiosa in the Mad Max film and Maria in the latest Sonic movie, will play Riley, a 15-year-old travelling across the outback with her dad.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Top’s family and community members continued their search for the 26-year-old man in the outback, reported Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 9News and The Age.
    — David Chiu, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025

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