Crossword-Solution: OUTLYING 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Outlying a. Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or
the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote;
detached.

We have 15 clues for the answer “OUTLYING”

Clue Answers
Like remote suburbs 1 answer
Situate far from the centre 1 answer
Surrounding, as suburban areas 1 answer
distant from the main area 1 answer
Remote from the centre 1 answer
Suburban 3 answers
far off 9 answers
back of beyond 9 answers
Marginal 15 answers
afar 18 answers
faraway 23 answers
Backwoods 50 answers
Far 52 answers
Distant 87 answers
Remote 90 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OUTLYING (5)

Every stump that started up in their path seemed a man and an enemy, and made them catch their breath; and as they sped by some outlying cottages that lay near the village, the barking of the aroused watch-dogs seemed to give wings to their feet.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The nephew of one of the standard Victorian novelists, Mainhall bobbed about among the various literary cliques of London and its outlying suburbs, careful to lose touch with none of them.
Alexander’s Bridge and The Barrel Organ Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes 1993
Realizing that the section through which we had been passing was doubtless outlying, and therefore not so built up with large structures as the more centrally located part of the old town, I felt sure that farther down the river I should find the ruins larger.
The Lost Continent Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
Those familiar with the Tabard Inn bookcases still to be found in outlying drug-shops know that the stock has not been "turned" for many a year.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
Rome is an evil word, in my mother’s vocabulary, to be said in a whisper, as you ‘d say ‘damnation.’ Northampton is in the centre of the earth and Rome far away in outlying dusk, into which it can do no Christian any good to penetrate.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Quotes with OUTLYING (3)

I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in as a participant, but to which I had, nevertheless, grown inexplicably irrelevant. But the elements of this phenomenon are now quickly dissolving from memory and being replaced by reverse-engineered Random Access actualizations of junk code/DNA consciousness, the retro-coded catalysts of rogue cellular activity. The steel meshing titt…
Ashim Shanker Sinew of the Social Species
Behind us are two or three dozen country people from the outlying towns. With them are cages of chicken and goats, sheep, even cattle. That’s where we fit on market day. Between the executions and the livestock sales.
Kristen Simmons The Glass Arrow
Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, "The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.
Sheila Cassidy
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1987–2014).