Remember that the former outnumber the latter nearly eight to one; and you perceive that the Coloured death-rate is nearly double the White.
Among the Kafirs and the aboriginal tribes of North America polygyny usually appears only where the women outnumber the men.
In Europe, the average male births outnumber the female by about five per cent.
This state of things naturally grows up in a society where monogamy is prescribed by law, where the adult women outnumber the adult men, where many men never marry, and where married women too often lead an indolent life.
Then come the Germans, who now outnumber the Irish.
The listeners, the receptive listeners, shouldoutnumber the talkers.
It used to be that "every dog had his day," but the dogs far outnumber the days in free America.
We do not wish to criticise such mechanics, for here, in a land where the blacks so far outnumber the white population, there are many things to be considered.
At all the other out-schools the girls generally outnumber the boys.
As usual in Palaeozoic strata older than the coal, the brachiopodous mollusca greatly outnumber the lamellibranchiate (see below); but the latter are by no means unrepresented.
According to the report of our scouts, he must outnumber us two to one," I ventured to suggest.
The people are coming in rapidly, and soon we shall outnumber his force five to one.
In the colleges and universities the number of women students is a little over one-third of the number of men students, but in the high schools the girl students outnumber the boys.
The doge's men-at-arms outnumber mine, and look to be better soldiers.
The Mamelukes might outnumber the Tartars today, but the Tartars had never been defeated anywhere in the world.
The dead seemed to outnumber the living; and these were flying helter-skelter this way and that!
We could outnumber the enemy yet if we had a soldier fit to take command.
He still lives," replied the admiral; "his years do not outnumber my own.
I have a sister, lady," he said, "whose years do not outnumber your own.
We know you outnumber us, but we know you would not take advantage of that.
Strong as it is, it is doomed to defeat, for I don't care how brave and skilful those fellows are, they are no more so than the rustlers, who far outnumber them.
The inland-cliff breeding daws that inhabit the valley of the Somerset Axe alone probably greatly outnumber all the daws in Middlesex, or Surrey, or Essex.
The jackdaws outnumber all the other species (rooks included) put together; they literally swarm, and their ringing, yelping cries may be heard at all hours of the day in any part of the forest.
In the retina the rodsoutnumber the cones and these latter are smaller than in any other animals.
In the retina the cones outnumber the rods, but are not as numerous as in the reptiles.
The difficulty they had to deal with was the following: The Uitlander(Outlander or foreign) element in the republic had grown so enormously as far to outnumber the Dutch.
The yield of the diamond mines was also enormous, and these two incitements brought a steady stream of new settlers to that region, destined before many years greatly to outnumber the sturdy farmers and herders of Dutch descent.
The pretence that the rights of Protestants are in danger from Catholics in this country, where the Protestants outnumber the Catholics as eight or ten to one, is too absurd to be even a passable joke.
Should any of your number be arrested, you must collect together as quickly as possible so as to outnumber your adversaries who are taking an active part against you.
A tear softened his eyes as he placed them on the ground.
Sam could hear in his tones the crash of steel into human flesh and the grating of the blade on the bone.
He at once rose and took an oath to enter France in arms; to wait there a month in order to give Philip time to offer him battle, and to accept the combat, even should the French outnumber him ten to one.
They outnumber us by twelve to one, and it is likely enough that the citizens may rise and attack us in the rear.
Methinks the king has erred somewhat in making the forces equal, for assuredly the besiegers should outnumber the besieged by fully three to one to give them a fair chance of success.
I only intended to give you the information that Dingfield's company was coming, and would then outnumber you," replied Deck.
But they are brave men, and we outnumber them two to one.
The other reason was his fear that if many negroes were imported they and the Indians would so outnumber the whites as to be a grave menace.
He did, however, appoint additional life Councillors, enough largely to outnumberthe partisans of Guzman.
On the basis of collections and field observations, the males were found to outnumber the females in the Micronesian islands; although the ratio may not be so great as four to one.
He found the bird in flocks of two to six or more and noted that birds in immature plumage seemed to outnumber the birds in adult plumage approximately five to one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outnumber" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
