His big ships would certainly be stranded if he went up and waited for the army to come down; moreover, when stranded, these ships would be captured while waiting, because both banks were swarming with vastly outnumbering Confederate troops.
The first week in June saw desperate marches in the Valley, with the outnumbering Federals hot-foot on the trail of Jackson, who turned to bay one moment and at the next was off again.
On June 1st, while separated from Rupert, he met the Dutch fleet under De Ruyter, outnumbering him nearly two to one.
Espinosa found himself assailed by a foe outnumbering him ten or twenty to one.
The Spaniards at first were not a little alarmed in finding themselves in company with such an army of natives; outnumbering them eight to one, and they were apprehensive of treachery.
Even when they had reached Panama, they were day after day in intense apprehension of the approach of their outnumbering foes, by whose valor they had already been discomfited, and so greatly disgraced.
Outnumbering those who charged many times, it was not in savage nature to face that unformed oncoming motley of howling, bloodthirsty maniacs.
The same irresponsibles were there, as ever they are present at times of storm; but added to the aggregation now, outnumbering them, were others ordinarily responsible, men typical in every way of the time and place.
All they realized were sleepless nights, the shock of combat, overpowering artillery fire, and resisting the onslaught of outnumbering masses.
Her outnumbering guns which had kept the peace of the seas still kept it.
During some seasons and at certain places the Tennessee warbler is exceedingly abundant, sometimes far outnumbering any other species, but it is very variable in its abundance.
Three times did this gallant regiment charge into the French massed infantry, outnumbering them four to one; thrice did they overthrow the enemy's horse.
Then, indeed, would he have to risk encounter with the redoubtable Foresters, outnumbering his escort, as he knew.
On the other side of the glen, not far from the site of the Philistine camp on the day of Saul's last defeat, lay the far- stretching camp of the invaders, outnumbering Israel by four to one.
With a small force he was beating up recruits in the district when he suddenly came upon a troop of Cossacks outnumbering him by two to one.
We have fewer troops in the field at the end of the six days than we had at the beginning--the attrition among the old outnumbering the addition by the new.
Before it stood the Army of the Potomac, outnumbering it two to one, and behind that army stood a great nation ready to pour forth more men by the hundreds of thousands and more money by the hundreds of millions to save the Union.
The Missourians, although outnumbering the brethren, found themselves overmatched and beat a hasty retreat to get arms.
Under these circumstances, the advantage was probably, on the whole, with the vastly outnumbering natives.
The Indians, outnumbering them fifteen to one, closely pressed them, making the forest resound with their hideous outcries.
But the inhabitants boldly sallied forth to protect their property, and the Indians, though greatly outnumbering them, fled before their determined valor.
Without any dinner, they had entered upon one of the most toilsome and deadly of conflicts, and had continued to struggle against intrenched and outnumbering foes for four hours.
All the Pueblo cities were built in positions which Nature herself had fortified,--a necessity of the times, since they were surrounded by outnumbering hordes of the deadliest warriors in history; but Acoma was most secure of all.
Antonio de Otermin was then governor and captain-general of New Mexico, and was attacked in his capital of Santa Fe by a greatly-outnumbering army of Indians.
Three times with the courage of despair the handful of soldiers pressed on to the assault, but three times the outnumbering savages drove them back.
Nevertheless, outnumbering the British as they did, they fought bravely, jumping quickly behind the nearest trees, determined to sell their lives as dearly as possible.
Some fell, as they dashed into the very face of the German fire, but the bulk of the British reached their goal, where, outnumbering the Germans now, they soon disposed of them.
He was satisfied that the girls would never be surrendered, but that the Indians, now outnumbering them five to one, intended a massacre.
In reading my simple narrative some may say we were taking desperate chances in following an enemy, outnumbering us several times, into his own country.
So, on the 20th of December, with a force of mounted infantry and cavalry outnumbering that of the Union troops more than ten to one, he made a dash to capture the place.
Should the outnumbering Indians succeed in passing the narrow intervening space, the trappers would inevitably be overpowered and from the spear-heads of the savages, forty-three scalps would be waved as the banners of their victory.
They would have several hours advantage of the savages, and they thought it not advisable to provoke a conflict with foes outnumbering them, and who were also armed with rifles.
It probably contained passengers and crew, and perhaps soldiers, three or four times outnumberingthe buccaneers.
And still the vanquished Spaniards could rally a force greatly outnumbering his own.
In glittering battalions they were drawn up upon the plain, outnumbering the pirates three to one.
The greatly outnumbering pirates soon shot down the governor, and so many of his soldiers, that the remainder attempted to escape to the woods.
Nearly the entire Federal force, though outnumbering more than two to one the Confederate force, was captured or destroyed.
We had achieved success in the face of brave foes outnumbering us more than two to one, and had conquered an army of Mexican veterans, perfectly equipped and appointed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outnumbering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
