Which preposition to use with outlet

for Occurrences 119%

3. The Church affords the best outlet for moral activity.

of Occurrences 117%

These, then, would help to account for the quantity of water in the Pit; and, if the fall of rock and earth had blocked the outlet of the stream at the bottom, there was little doubt but that it was contributing a very large share.

to Occurrences 55%

This is the grand Central Valley of California, the waters of which have only one outlet to the sea through the Golden Gate.

in Occurrences 38%

The wild, hopeless passion that raged within my soul had no outlet in the immovable apparatus that held me.

into Occurrences 17%

It would, therefore, be of little use to remove the sandbanks without giving the San Mateo, the cause of their existence, a direct and separate outlet into the lake.

on Occurrences 17%

The constant aim of the Allies, even in opposition to Italy, has been to give free and safe outlets on the sea coast to the Serb-Croat-Slovene State.

from Occurrences 12%

The only outlet from this village was by passing down the valley along the settlements, and following the course of the stream; so that there was no other injunction laid on me, than not to extend my rambles far in that direction.

at Occurrences 6%

Look at a map, and you will see that the valley of the Mississippi, and of the lakes, and the shores of the Atlantic, are not necessarily connected either with the Gulf of Mexico, (save the indispensable outlet at New Orleans,) or the regions beyond the great desert and the Rocky Mountains, the land of the Mormons and the gold-diggers.

through Occurrences 5%

First, he stopped up the outlet through the hedge with stones, and clay, and bits of board; then watched as it spread, until he saw where it would try to escape next, and did the same; and so on, taking care especially to keep it from the house.

as Occurrences 3%

With an intelligence active too, she united a spirituality torturingly intense, but for which she had no such natural creative outlet as Henry.

down Occurrences 3%

Serbia, shut out from the Adriatic, had no alternative save to seek her economic outlet down the valley of the Vardar towards the Aegean, and in so doing she came into violent conflict with Bulgarian aspirations in Macedonia.

towards Occurrences 3%

He desired to leave Bulgaria a broad zone of Aegean littoral between the Struma and Maritsa rivers, including ports capable of satisfying Bulgaria's pressing need for an outlet towards the south.

under Occurrences 2%

The Leeshaw dam, which was being constructed at that time upon the same lines, viz., with culvert outlet under the dam, was, at the advice of Sir Robert Rawlinson, altered to a side tunnel outlet clear of the dam.

by Occurrences 2%

A low range of hills stretches across, and nearly closes it, the united waters finding their outlet by a narrow valley to the north.

than Occurrences 2%

I knew that the cave had no other outlet than this one at which we crouched, but also that two determined men might hold half an hundred in check as long as their ammunition lastedbut then?

past Occurrences 1%

It is estimated there are twenty thousand miles of navigable streams which find an outlet past the city of New Orleans.

up Occurrences 1%

It was weary work, for the smoke below sought an outlet up the passage and made my eyes ache; the wind that whirled through the cracks of the hood brought spray with it and the water dripped constantly, and the thunder of an occasional sea as it swept the forecastle-head made such a dreadful noise that I was sure each visitation meant that we were overwhelmed.

between Occurrences 1%

Nine of the people on board managed to escape in a small boat, which was driven in a miraculous manner through the only safe outlet between the rocks.

until Occurrences 1%

Moreover the expanding West, whose natural outlet until then had been down the Mississippi to the South, became now linked to the East by great lines of railroad, and West and East entered into such a new bond of sympathy that there was nothing for it, in a time of trial, but to stand together.

Which preposition to use with  outlet