Sentence examples for nearest outpost from inspiring English sources

I immediately sent a radio message ordering the submarine to turn back and put him on the nearest outpost steamer.

The World Food Programme spent two weeks trucking 1,000 tonnes of flour to Zari, the nearest outpost accessible by road, but never told the aid organisations that would distribute it.

For the first time in 497 days, they were on land, but the nearest outpost of civilization was a whaling station 750 miles away on South Georgia Island — across the Drake Passage, the roughest seas on earth.

Less than 500 meters away, separated by only a couple of bamboo fences and a heavily mined jungle, lies the nearest outpost of their enemy: the Myanmar Army.

Nine officers and fifteen men had already died; the rest would die along the way, most on the island and another 30 or 40 on the northern coast of the mainland, hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization.

Yemeni officials said the nearest Houthi outpost to the block that was hit is around three miles away.

The tanks appear to have been aiming at an empty municipal market, across the street from the Hijo house and perhaps 300 yards from the nearest Israeli outpost.

The other survivors tried to walk south along the shore, not realizing that the nearest Spanish outpost was Tampico, 300 mile away.

This was well north of Crozier's stated goal, the Back River, and several hundred miles away from the nearest Western outpost, on the Great Slave Lake.

Cheam is a tiny dead village on the very, very outskirts of London – half an hour from Victoria Station, the nearest available outpost of civilisation.

Reverend G.N. Godwin's Civil War in Hampshire (1882) During this exchange, Waller, eager to repair his reputation after Roundway Down, promptly decided to attack Alton, the nearest Royalist outpost to Farnham and only ten miles away.