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Example sentences for "outpaced"

Lexicographically close words:
outnumbered; outnumbering; outnumbers; outos; outpace; outpacing; outplay; outplayed; outport; outports
  1. Eve, the swift of foot, outpaced Hugh, and was the first to leap into that circle of tall flames.

  2. An arrow had burst to pieces unaccountably in his bow, numbing his arm and wounding him on the chin, and now he was outpaced at his own game of cold silence.

  3. I am reckoned fleet of foot, but he outpaced me as much as I outpaced the little professional.

  4. Two of the pursuers who had outpaced the others crept up to him--lank, lean men of not more than thirty years of age.

  5. The roads were so narrow and so bad that the British could keep no order, and if the French outpaced them and reached the open position at the rear first, the British line would be pierced.

  6. Scorning to wait for the ladders, they leaped into the great ditch, outpaced even the forlorn hope, and pushed vehemently up the great breach, whilst their red ranks were torn by shell and shot.

  7. My own speed, once I was free again, I knew outpaced easily the swiftest bird, outpaced light itself.

  8. There is really no reason to believe, as has been suggested, that he had outpaced his army and had only his escort with him.

  9. The infantry were soon left behind; the charioteers and horsemen, however, outpaced the heavily-laden Roman ships, and galloped down to the shore in time to oppose the landing.

  10. With the exception of the look-out man in the bows the crew were all aft, watching the outpaced war vessel and exchanging ribald jests at the expense of her commander.

  11. Two miles out at sea the big guns flashed and boomed, and ahead of them on the marshland path the footsteps of the man they had seen in the rays of the searchlight were dying away, so quickly had he outpaced the lingerers.


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