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Example sentences for "outlasted"

Lexicographically close words:
outlander; outlanders; outlandish; outlands; outlast; outlasts; outlaw; outlawe; outlawed; outlawes
  1. Tcherven, Peremysl, and other places fell into his hands, but the wars on the Polish march dragged on at intervals and outlasted the reigns of both princes.

  2. Short though the term of the truce was, it outlasted the two principals who within a few months of each other attained that eternal peace which in life they had been unable to compact for.

  3. Regulated by their mother-town, both in their trade and their government, these Italian quarters outlasted the collapse of the kingdom, and continued to exist under Mahommedan rulers.

  4. She was a firm friend to those she loved, steadfast in affection that outlasted youth and prosperity.

  5. You run yourself stone-cold, only to find that your quarry has outlasted you.

  6. De Wet had outlasted him, and had, moreover, seen that it would be useless to carry out his original programme.

  7. In the offer of these antiquities we drive not at ancient families, so long outlasted by them.

  8. He outlasted all these wiseacres, however, watching through mild, spectacled eyes the shifting changes of the college world, which always left him as immovable as the old elms before the library door.

  9. He outlasted them so consistently that it was not necessary.

  10. I have now outlasted a century, and my powers are wasted and gone.

  11. These, together with the great ebony ruler, had now outlasted his own reign and would pass to the new-comer.

  12. The rays of the newly-risen sun struggled through the escutcheoned panes and cast a variegated sheen over all, and a candle which had outlasted its fellows shone with a pale sickly light.

  13. It was much the most highly specialized of the two, and in the other continental regions where both were found the horse outlasted the tapir.

  14. But in South America the tapir outlasted the horse.

  15. I mean the zealous, the religious enmity to every anti-Christian power, of him who has outlasted Zingis and Timour, who has outlasted Seljuk, who is now outlasting Othman.

  16. That stream was the most fleeting and vanishing thing about the ponderous and high-piled abbey; and yet it has outlasted everything else, and might still outlast another such edifice, and be none the worse for wear.

  17. Many old carvings that belonged to it are heaped together there; but the water has disappeared, though, had it been a natural spring, it would have outlasted all the heavy stone-work.

  18. No university of its day can match it; its vitality has outlasted the "Reformation" itself, and its spirit and statutes remain to this moment as obstinately Catholic as in the days of Bacon and Duns Scotus.

  19. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away.

  20. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outlasted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.