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Examples of outrun in a Sentence
The rabbit had no chance of outrunning the dogs.
His motorcycle could outrun any car on the road.
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At age 42 in 1973, Mays couldn’t outrun Father Time and sadly became a symbol of athletes who stick around a little too long.
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David K. Li, NBC News, 19 June 2024
Hardy starred opposite Charlize Theron in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, playing two characters who join forces to outrun a tyrannical ruler in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 18 June 2024
Qualcomm says the Snapdragon X Plus’ multi-threaded performance still compares favorably to Apple’s M3, outrunning it by about 10 percent; Qualcomm doesn’t provide any single-core scores, which are presumably less flattering.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2024
Almost every night their radar tracks fishermen laying new nets from skiffs that easily outrun local law-enforcement boats.
—Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
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David K. Li, NBC News, 19 June 2024
Hardy starred opposite Charlize Theron in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, playing two characters who join forces to outrun a tyrannical ruler in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 18 June 2024
Qualcomm says the Snapdragon X Plus’ multi-threaded performance still compares favorably to Apple’s M3, outrunning it by about 10 percent; Qualcomm doesn’t provide any single-core scores, which are presumably less flattering.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2024
Almost every night their radar tracks fishermen laying new nets from skiffs that easily outrun local law-enforcement boats.
—Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
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outrun
verb
out·run
(ˈ)au̇t-ˈrən 
outran
-ˈran
; outrun; outrunning
; outrun; outrunning
1
: to run or go faster than
2
: exceed sense 1
our needs outran our funds
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