OUTWARD in a Sentence

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For OUTWARD, below is one of 86 sentences:
In the mysterious nocturnal separation from all outward signs of life, she felt herself more strangely confronted with her fate.

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 Meanings and Examples of OUTWARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
outward
 ad.  toward the outside
 a.  that is going out or leaving
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  He only saw the outward results, and those results impressed him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Between them, they taught her all that a gentlewoman should know, but she learned only the outward signs of gentility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  To the outward eye, never had a girl less cause to be miserable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Cold little ripples of fear that started in the pit of her stomach were radiating outward until the fingers that touched her cheeks were cold, though the rest of her body streamed perspiration.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  But the peace he gained was hollow, only an outward semblance, for he had purchased it at the cost of everything he held to be right in married life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  Underneath the surface were misery and fear, but all the outward appearances were those of a thriving town that was rapidly rebuilding from its ruins, a bustling, hurrying town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  In the mysterious nocturnal separation from all outward signs of life, she felt herself more strangely confronted with her fate.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
8  He turned and looked about him, sternly compelling himself to regain his consciousness of outward things.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
9  No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
10  But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
11  She was not accustomed to an outward and spoken expression of affection, either in herself or in others.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
12  Edna often wondered at one propensity which sometimes had inwardly disturbed her without causing any outward show or manifestation on her part.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
13  His outward life was commonplace and uninteresting; he was just a hotel-porter, and expected to remain one while he lived; but meantime, in the realm of thought, his life was a perpetual adventure.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
14  As the blankets yielded before the outward pressure, and the branches settled in the fissure of the rock by their own weight, forming a compact body, Duncan once more breathed freely.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
15  He met us hard by, in our outward march to ambush his advance, and scattered us, like driven deer, through the defile, to the shores of Horican.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  There were no outward signs that anything was wrong.
2  Rising interest rates were an outward indication of the change in government attitude to economic controls.
3  A stellar wind streams outward from the star.
4  The circular arrangement presents similar alternatives if one reads the lines of each hexagram from the center outward.
5  Despite his outward display of friendliness, I sensed he was concealing something.
6  Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
7  Love doesn't consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
8  The economy and outward appearance of the area have changed considerably.
9  All the outward signs of growth in the market are there.
10  He had a physical strength that matched his outward appearance.
11  Tickets must be bought seven days in advance, with outward and return journey dates specified.
12  She simply observes the outward forms of religion.
13  The company car is an outward symbol of the employee's status.
14  The two things are the same in outward form but different in essence.
15  John till my sinews ache, I _shall_ satisfy him -- to the finest central point and farthest outward circle of his expectations.