OUTPOST in a Sentence

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For OUTPOST, below is one of 10 sentences:
In front of this position, they say, a fortified outpost was set up on the Shevardino mound to observe the enemy.

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 Meanings and Examples of OUTPOST
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outpost
 n.  a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops; a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
Classic Sentence:
1  In front of this position, they say, a fortified outpost was set up on the Shevardino mound to observe the enemy.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIX
2  At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI
3  On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two days' march and the enemy's outposts after a brief interchange of shots retreated.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI
4  Denisov, as was his wont, rode out in front of the outposts, parading his courage.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
5  This was a plan of campaign he had devised while serving at the outposts during the retreat.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XV
6  They were the outposts of the Snow Queen.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
7  He traversed the line of the principal outposts, halting here and there to talk to the sentinels.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
Example Sentence:
1  Some soldiers waited at an outpost deep in the forest.
2  That little store was the last outpost for motorists before they entered the desert.
3  The frigid, inhospitable Aleutian Islands are bleak military outposts.