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Example sentences for "outstripping"

Lexicographically close words:
outstanding; outstretched; outstretching; outstrip; outstripped; outstrips; outta; outten; outthrust; outturn
  1. And yet thou art the nobler of us two: What dare I dream of, that thou canst not do, Outstripping my ten small steps with one stride?

  2. Outstripping time, her infant there burst swathe, Stood up with eyes haggard beyond the scathe From wandering after his heritage Lost once and lost for aye--and why that rage, That deprecating glance?

  3. Outstripping all, Ever Muléykeh stands first steed at the victor's staff.

  4. The cause of this decline of profit is the increased cost of maintaining labor, which results from an increase of population and of the demand for food, outstripping the advance of agricultural improvement.

  5. Then, far outstripping all, Tydides push'd 500 His steeds beyond, which Pallas fill'd with power That she might make the glorious prize his own.

  6. The number of their collected enemies was great, but Hermas had hopes of outstripping them, for his prisoner revealed to him the spot where their boats, drawn up on shore, lay hidden under sand and stones.

  7. He tracked the footsteps now of this master poet, now of another, far outstripping some of his models; soon spent in the pursuit of others.

  8. It drew near, its cause quickly outstripping it.

  9. Majnun, outstripping Zeyd, left him to follow, and plunged into the forest.

  10. At times, especially during the rapid revival of business after 1897, before rising prices began to affect costs of operation, extraordinary increases in earnings appeared, outstripping the growth of expenditures.

  11. Memphis was rapidly growing, outstripping the city of Natchez which had formerly played a more important part in the southern trade.

  12. Jibra'il, who had accompanied me without outstripping me or allowing me to outrun him, approved what I had done.

  13. The effect, in such cases, was in some degree analogous to that of Velluti's singing; it bespoke intentions outstripping the possibility of execution.

  14. At this part of its course the river made a wide bend, while the railway ran fairly straight; so that if the hydroplane got safely past the narrows there was still a possibility of the train outstripping it before the junction was reached.

  15. Then their chance of outstripping the train is gone.

  16. Then recollecting the impossibility of outstripping the furious speed of an alarmed bison, he felt for his arms, determined to make head against the countless drove.


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