Outlet

Examples

• By what outlet had the fugitive taken wing? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• What do teachers imagine is happening to thought and emotion when the latter get no outlet in the things of immediate activity? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A fleet of British and French ships gathered around the outlet of Chesapeake Bay, alert to capture the daring mariners and their ship, if possible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It has found an intelligent outlet for forces that would otherwise be purely cataclysmic. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In case of a crevasse in this vicinity, the water escaping would find its outlet through the same channels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Huron River, emptying into Lake Erie, was navigable within a few miles of the village, and provided an admirable outlet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The pressure at an outlet decreases as the level of the water supply sinks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The stove _S_, like all other stoves, has an inlet for air and an outlet _C_ for smoke; but in addition, it has built around it a chamber in which air circulates and is warmed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Mr. Featherstone's face required its whole scale of grimaces as a muscular outlet to his silent triumph in the soundness of his faculties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Thereby he might hope to end the private warfare that prevailed, and find a proper outlet for the immense energy of the Normans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At any rate, it shall be strong enough to search--inquire--to grope an outlet from this cloud of doubt, and find the open day of certainty. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As the tar comes from the kiln it is caught in a hole dug before the outlet and is dipped up and poured into barrels, the average yield being one barrel of tar to the cord of wood. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The numerous Edison central stations all over the country represented much more than that sum, and made a splendid outlet for the product of the factories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is six miles long and has its outlet through Bayou Baxter, Bayou Macon, and the Tensas, Washita and Red Rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For the senses and muscles are used not as organic participants in having an instructive experience, but as external inlets and outlets of mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Samuel Edison did well at this occupation, and employed several men, but there were other outlets from time to time for his business activity and speculative disposition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Some responses are secured, but desires and affections not enlisted must find other outlets. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Along the length of the pipe were outlets to which thick rubber tubing was connected, each tube to a pump. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is lowly, but airy, open at the back, and considered one of the 'ealthiest outlets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But their curiosity was disappointed; for these outlets only looked upon the court of the castle, and the sound came from beyond its precincts. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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