How to Use outdistance in a Sentence

outdistance

verb
  • This television outdistances all others in the number of sales.
  • She easily outdistanced the other runners.
  • That outdistanced the next-best back by more than 20, according to the story.
    Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Fitzgerald was able to outdistance Fabian Daza for the win.
    cleveland, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Madeline Vonah said Lapointe St-Georges was part of the team which outdistanced them in their first year.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
  • The vehicles then took off at a high rate of speed in an attempt to outdistance each other.
    Houston Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2020
  • In jersey sales, Tagovailoa is outdistancing Tom Brady, whose jerseys hold the third, fourth, fifth and sixth spots in the sales.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 11 May 2020
  • Moreover, other work suggests that the longer the plants live, the further the sexuals would outdistance the clones, because clones tend to die off at younger ages.
    Joann C Gutin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Breakaway: One rider or a group of riders who have outdistanced the peloton.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, Marchand is on pace to outdistance his prior season’s assist mark for the fourth straight year.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2020
  • And over its first two years of operation, Brightline has outdistanced Tri-Rail and other lines across the nation in the rate of people killed along its tracks.
    Andrew Boryga, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • New Zealand has outdistanced the U.S. with relative ease in each heat, erasing...
    Aaron Kuriloff, WSJ, 23 June 2017
  • Tapwrit received 20.75 percent of votes to outdistance Irish War Cry.
    Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 10 June 2017
  • The two outdistanced a field of nine candidates on the primary ballot to reach the November election.
    Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 2 Jan. 2018
  • The reigning national champion Bears earned all 61 first-place votes for the third time in four weeks to easily outdistance No. 2 Duke.
    Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The Crusaders used a 66-yard run by Austin Young, a punt return, an interception and a kick recovery to easily outdistance the Minotaurs in the first half.
    Howard Schlossberg, azcentral, 8 Nov. 2019
  • According to Bloomberg, his distressed-debt funds returned 19% per annum after fees, a record that far outdistanced his peers.
    Burton G. Malkiel, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Hobart’s Cody Johnston won the pole vault with a 17-0 to easily outdistance the competition.
    The Indianapolis Star, 3 June 2023
  • Long a champion fundraiser, Strange has easily outdistanced Moore in the money race.
    USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2017
  • But then came the Countach, which outdistanced its Raging Bull predecessor at every turn.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
  • This is at least the third television ad buy the Ivey campaign has made in recent weeks - a testament to her fundraising that far outdistances her opponents in the Juen 5 Republican primary.
    Paul Gattis, AL.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Over time - probably starting right around now - the polar ice sheets will begin to massively outdistance the losses from mountain glaciers and become the dominant drivers of global sea-level rise.
    Author: Chris Mooney, Andrew Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Britt also outdistanced Brooks by 16 percentage points in winning the plurality of votes in the primary but the runoff was required since no candidate in the primary received a majority of the votes.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 2 June 2023
  • Boeing boosted deliveries of jets last year but still fell well short of rival Airbus, which continued to outdistance Boeing as the world’s biggest jetliner maker.
    WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Murray earned 26 first- or second-place votes, easily outdistancing Oakland running back Josh Jacobs, who had 13.
    Staff and Wires Reports, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Despite being from different parties, Pugliese and Gnazzo were the two top vote-getters in the 2017 election, easily outdistancing all other candidates.
    Don Stacom, courant.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Both vehicles switched between lanes, drove in the center turn lane, drove in opposite lanes of travel, overtook other motorists, and drove at high rates of speed, in an apparent attempt to outdistance each other, according to the investigation.
    Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In the girls’ championship, Wellesley (78) ruled with yet another dominant performance, outdistancing runner-up Concord-Carlisle by 30 points.
    Zachary Lyons, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The system's unfunded liabilities are the amount by which the system's liabilities outdistanced its assets.
    Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2023
  • However, many in the bitcoin and crypto space remain confident the price of bitcoin, ethereum and smaller cryptocurrencies, including memecoins shiba inu and dogecoin, will eventually rebound and far outdistance their previous highs.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022

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