outbuilding
Origin of outbuilding
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How to use outbuilding in a sentence
There are dozens of weapons stored in the bombed-out building on the outskirts of Al Bab and he had made all of them by hand.
Syrian Rebels Outgunned but Unbroken in Fight for Aleppo | Erin Banco | August 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI had some of our guys out building a gun safe yesterday at a house where the guy was wacky.
But the pitch-pine fire was there, all the same; it had been made on the ground behind a small out-building.
East Angels | Constance Fenimore WoolsonGoing round the out-building of the store, he made his way through the snow to the cabin where Spurling was imprisoned.
Murder Point | Coningsby DawsonHumanity wears itself out building bridges for imaginary torrents.
The Pagan Madonna | Harold MacGrath
They were disarmed, and put in the guard-house, which was a small out-building belonging to the hotel.
Ten years in the ranks, U.S. army | Augustus MeyersHas been insane thirty-eight years, under the management of his relatives, who have generally had him confined in an out-building.
On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane | John T. Arlidge
British Dictionary definitions for outbuilding
/ (ˈaʊtˌbɪldɪŋ) /
a building subordinate to but separate from a main building; outhouse
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