How to use "outside" in a sentence

This ship, and my own life, is a secret to the outside world

I saw Captain Nemo on the platform outside the ship

"Captain, there are cannibals outside the Nautilus."

The Nautilus is perfectly safe from those outside it."

He and some of his men went up and opened the outside door of the Nautilus

We sometimes stopped on the ocean floor and walked outside the ship

One afternoon, while the Nautilus was on the surface of the water, I went upstairs to have a look outside

It was dark outside

Captain Nemo turned on the outside lights.

As he opened it, a long thick tentacle of the giant squid came inside like a snake and pulled the man outside

She was outside again, in the country.

She heard somebody outside

'Mary Ann, Mary Ann! Where are you? Bring me my hat!' The words came from the garden, outside the window

One of her arms was outside the window

When she could hear the Rabbit outside the window, she moved her arm up and down

She took it outside

'Take his head off outside!' shouted the Queen

The building that I went to live in was nice on the outside but not on the inside

Later, I went outside and walked round for about half an hour, then went back

But one night I was sitting outside the Hodaddy Club, smoking a cigarette, when a girl smiled and came up to me

I waited outside for most of the day

The Temperer factory was outside the town

But then there was that girl outside the Hodaddy Club

Sue and I got off the bus at Savannah, then I went and got a cup of coffee and sat outside the bus station

on her way to Spitalfields market, she noticed a man and a woman talking outside number 29

The first witness was Elizabeth Darrell, who very probably saw the Ripper with Annie Chapman outside 29 Hanbury Street

After the Hanbury Street murder people waited in queues outside newsagents

On a spring evening in 1818, in the village of Montfermeil, not far from Paris, two little girls were playing on a swing outside a small inn

Somewhere on the outskirts of Paris, Jean Valjean stopped outside a large, ancient building with damp walls

One evening, towards the end of winter, Valjean gave some money to a beggar sitting under a streetlamp outside a church

The next evening he returned to the steetlamp outside the church

Someone with a candle was standing outside his room.

At daybreak, as he was falling asleep at last, he heard footsteps in the corridor outside his room again

Every night he stood outside their house and gazed up at their lighted windows

'There's a carriage outside

Finally, there was the sound of horses in the street outside and, moments later, the door to the room was thrown open.

As soon as the fighting started, Enjolras and several of his friends started to build a barricade outside the Corinth wine shop in the rue de la Chanvrerie, a small street surrounded by dark alleys in the market district of Paris

'Well, Gavroche, will you do something for me? I want you to deliver this letter to the address written on the outside.'

Valjean untied the rope around Javert's feet and, taking him by the belt of his coat, led him outside

The rebels fought long and hard to defend the stronghold, but finally they had to withdraw to the low wall outside the wine shop

One by one the remaining rebels escaped into the wine shop, until only Enjolras and Marius were left outside

When Valjean was outside, Thenardier closed the gate behind him and disappeared, like a rat, into the darkness of the sewers.

In the distance I hear the sound of a gun, and the crowd outside cheers.

And then money fills the air outside

The man's dark hair is wet from the rain outside, his skin pale and his eyes cold and dead

A dog outside in the street? The alarm of a car? A baby crying in the next house?

Yes, outside the house the streets are silent

You can imagine the street outside: twenty terraced houses stretching down the road

The door to the spare room is half open, and you can hear the sound of the wind outside

The secretary outside the headmaster's room tells them they can enter, but Smith stops

Owen is tall and fair with blue eyes and a healthy complexion from years of work and activity outside.

Sala and Cham live in an enormous overcrowded city that they are forbidden to leave, for their own protection: the world outside the city was contaminated during the wars.

Sala and her friend Niki pushed past the people who had gathered in the rain outside the meat-growing laboratory

At once, there was silence: the noise of all the people outside was completely shut out

it came from outside?"

I've always believed that he died in the outside world, in the contamination." She rolled the fruit between her fingers

"Gran, you never know! Maybe there are places outside the city that didn't get contaminated - where people survived."

If it really was from outside, it could be dangerous to say anything about it

"Do you honestly think it came from outside?"

But of course it can't have come in from outside..

"Well, I suppose I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, there is still life in the outside world - and maybe someone from that world has found a way across the city boundary."

outside."

If that rose fruit came from outside, who knows what may be possible."

"So, was that note really from Gran's brother? Are people alive out there - outside the city? How did you get the note across the force field?" She had so many questions.

Instead, she thought of Oban and Wena, and Gran's dreams about a life outside

And if, like Eston says, they really live freely in the outside world, you wouldn't want to stay here, would you?" Mom nodded

The only thing that made the time pass more quickly was her family's dream of the world outside

I sat on a window seat, looking at the bright day outside

There was a sound outside the door and Mrs Danvers stopped talking

I was glad to be outside again.

We all went outside

Coloured lights were hung in the trees outside

'Will someone take my wife outside? She is going to faint.'

But how was that possible? How in the name of God could there be ice here, in a well-heated house and on a night when the outside temperature was at least twenty degrees above the freezing point?

The frost left the window, and outside the white cat still chased the scrap of paper.

I'll get a cone, and then we can go outside, walk around the parking lot

They went outside and strolled down the street, past the partygoers' cars, which ran the gamut from Rolls-Royces to Range Rovers.

She dragged it into the bedroom, across the carpet, into the shafts of reddish-gold afternoon sunlight that filtered through the sheltering trees outside and then through the dust-filmed window.

Rule out all of this nonsense about the dream having been sent by some outside force

He glanced outside, up the street

She opened the door and went outside.

It came from outside of me

Evidently the people in the funeral home were not aware that their man outside had been eliminated

"Except we're locked in, and the killers are running around loose on the outside."

They call the stuff 'Wuhan-400' because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan, and it was the four-hundredth viable strain of man-made microorganisms created at that research center.

And like syphilis, Wuhan-400 can't survive outside a living human body for longer than a minute, which means it can't permanently contaminate objects or entire places the way anthrax and other virulent microorganisms can

As long as you're the only ones outside of here who know what happened, you're marked people."

It was a windy, stormy evening, and the rain was falling heavily outside

Put this paper into your uncle's box, put in a letter which says that your uncle burnt all the other papers, and put the box outside in the garden

I had just managed to pull on trousers and a shirt and grab a hat and coat, when a black Citroen stopped outside the door.

When I arrived at the asylum that afternoon, Helene took me outside

'Do you remember I once told you about some mysterious flying stones in India? They come flying into houses as it thrown from outside, even though the doors and windows are closed.'

'And I remember your friend, Professor Augier, saying that the only possible explanation was that the stones had been disintegrated outside the house, had then come through the walls, and been reintegrated before hitting the floor or opposite walls

I sent the servant down with some food, but she brought it back with a note she had found outside the laboratory door: DO NOT DISTURB ME, I AM WORKING.

It's so mysterious, isn't it, the way she suddenly rented a house here, and hardly ever goes outside it? It's like a detective story

'I've just met him outside.'

There was the sound of feet in the passage outside, then the door opened.

'Remember, I met him just outside the gate

'Well, I shall never forget his face when I met him outside my gate, or the way he said, "Oh, you'll see Protheroe all right!" That should have made me suspect what had just happened.' Haydock stared at me

There was a noise outside

Just outside the gate, I met the vicar

'Do you mind, Mrs Protheroe, just showing us exactly what you did?' Inspector Slack pushed open the glass doors, and she stepped outside and walked round the house to the left

As I sat there, I heard footsteps outside, they paused for a minute, then went away

'You promise to tell no one outside this room?'

On my way home, Dr Haydock stopped his car beside me just outside his house

As I left, I saw of a group of young men with bright, interested faces waiting outside

'Yes?' I knew that it was easy to hear the bell from outside

Then he left the vicarage, and met you outside, Vicar

If, on that Friday night, you had drawn a circle at a distance of five kilometres from Horsell Common, I doubt if there would have been one human being outside it, unless it was a relation of Stent, whose emotions or habits were affected by the new arrivals

The Black Smoke moved slowly towards the river all through Monday morning, slowly getting nearer and nearer to us, coming at last along the road outside the house that hid us.

You can't possibly move without making a noise, and I think they are outside.'

For hours we lay there in the darkness, while from outside came the sounds of hammering and then, after some time, a sound like an engine

I touched the curate's leg, and he moved so suddenly that some bricks slid down outside with a loud crash

At a later date we began to feel less in danger of being seen because the sunlight outside was very bright, but at first anything approaching the house drove us back into the hall in fear

The death of the man outside had taken away all his powers of thought

Suddenly, I heard a noise outside and the hole in the wall became dark

In the light from outside, I saw the Martian studying the curate's head

Then, early on the fifteenth day, I heard the sound of a dog outside

On Saturdays, they wake him up at two o'clock, and put him outside the door.)

A big car arrived outside the house, a huge machine from the white man's land

Then there was the sound of a car stopping outside the house

That evening, after dinner, Miss Fairlie went outside to walk in the garden

There stood Miss Fairlie, alone outside in the moonlight, looking exactly like the woman in white! I suddenly realised that the 'something missing' was this: my realisation of the disturbing similarity between the fugitive from the asylum and my student at Limmeridge House.

'A carriage is waiting for me outside

'Yesterday, I looked out of the window in our old house, and I saw the Count standing outside with the doctor from the asylum! Then they went away

But, when he and the doctor were outside the house, the Count changed his mind and sent the doctor away, saying that he'd been mistaken.'

At times, the suffragettes also chained themselves outside 10 Downing Street - where the British prime minister lives - shouting "Votes for women!"

However, the number of women working outside the home was still higher than before

In the 1950s and 1960s, the number of women who worked outside the home went up again.

In many parts of the world, women cannot work outside of the house, or cannot work where they want to

Ruvimbo's husband hit her, and sometimes she had to sleep outside