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Example sentences for "outranged"

Lexicographically close words:
outrages; outraging; outragious; outragiously; outran; outrank; outranked; outre; outreach; outreaching
  1. They had heavy artillery, with which the British force was utterly unprovided, and even their field-guns had on occasion outranged ours.

  2. Our guns were, as in every battle of the war, outranged by the enemy's artillery.

  3. The guns of these forts were out of date, and were hopelessly outranged and outclassed by the howitzers of the enemy.

  4. The German ship was armed with guns which outranged those of the Pegasus, and she immediately began a fierce bombardment.

  5. Outranged and outdone in speed, the German ship was soon driven ashore in a sinking condition, with a funnel down and steering gear disabled.

  6. How a ship hid behind smoke produced on its own stern, with different directions of wind] Slower ships could be attacked without all this manoeuvering, provided the submarine's guns outranged those of the ship.

  7. The Venerable, a pre-Dreadnought battleship, did great execution with her big 12-inch guns, which outranged the German batteries.

  8. The gunners attempted in vain to reply; their pieces were outranged by over 500 yards, and at 8.

  9. The Natal Field battery and Natal Naval Volunteers' guns were again seriously outranged by the Boer artillery, and Colonel Cooper decided that, having regard to his instructions, he must fall back on Estcourt.

  10. However, she took pains that the shell should not reach the submarine; this was her means of persuading the U-boat that it outranged the Dunraven's gun and could safely give chase.

  11. The Luckenback was armed, but the fact that the submarine's guns easily outranged hers made her armament useless.

  12. In prevision of such an attempt, Yule had already shifted some of his equipage, and now, finding that the hostile guns outranged his own, he removed the camp two miles to the southward, on high ground.

  13. The Bolos followed us here and after several days shelling, to which because of being outranged we were unable to reply, they attacked late in the afternoon of October 23rd.

  14. There was no question but that she outranged the Emden slightly, but the German cruiser was steaming rapidly forward to overcome this disadvantage as quickly as possible.

  15. The shore batteries promptly returned the fire, but it soon became apparent that the guns on the ships outranged them.

  16. Although well aware he was outranged by the enemy, Jack determined to fight his ship to the last.


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