outdistance
IPA: ˈaʊtdˈɪstʌns
verb
- (transitive) To run further or faster than another, or to finish a race with a large margin.
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Examples of "outdistance" in Sentences
- Fortunately, they were finally able to sufficiently outdistance their pursuers.
- Desperately, Helberg skied downhill as fast as he could, using every trick he knew to outdistance his implacable adversary.
- Increasingly sophisticated statistics suggest that some “stars” have reputations that way outdistance their true value to their teams.
- China — as we can see with increasing clarity — is destined to become the world's largest economy and is likely in time to far outdistance the U.S.
- The story promotes an underdog mentality within Fox that it is not a respected part of the mainstream media, even as the network's ratings far outdistance its rivals.
- Finally, we'll not dwell either on the fact that no other book by Metalious will ever again be read by anyone, while the body of work by both Faulkner and Calvino (especially Faulkner) surely reaches greatly more readers than Peyton Place, and in the true long term will only outdistance Metalious by even greater numbers.
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