How to Use outsmart in a Sentence

outsmart

verb

• The government must gather large amounts of information in order to outsmart its enemies.
• Konkel now hopes her dogs learn tips to outsmart snakes.
  — Bryce Alderton, Daily Pilot, 4 May 2017
• Find out who outsmarts the rest by tuning in live tonight with a free trial of Fubo.
  — oregonlive, 8 May 2023
• Teams will race, run, eat, think and outsmart each other to the finish line.
  — 'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
• That’s two points for House Kain (one for guessing in three, one for outsmarting the Bot).
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• This is a game of pirate fun, gold coins, and outsmarting your friends.
  — Jenny Williams, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2012
• Your goal is to get five of these chips on the board, which isn’t easy when your partner is trying to outsmart you.
  — Lindsay Tigar, CNN Underscored, 6 Apr. 2021
• The Pogues still have more treasures to hunt and bad guys to outsmart all while clad in board shorts and bikinis, and a few brewskis deep.
  — Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 7 Dec. 2021
• So who will outsmart the competition and win the cash prize?
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2018
• But in this past week’s battle with Pusha T, the 6 God appears to have been outsmarted for the first time.
  — Billboard, 31 May 2018
• Here are a few ways to outsmart one of the smartest game birds on the planet—the late-season rooster pheasant.
  — Jarrod Spilger, Field & Stream, 23 Dec. 2019
• Teams of four will compete, drive, run, eat, think and outsmart each other to the finish line.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
• Doc is there trying to figure out how to outsmart the People Eater.
  — Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• The agents must rely on their strengths to outsmart and outlast the Chronicoms.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
• The pitcher is trying to fool the hitter; the hitter is trying to outsmart the pitcher.
  — Jeff Rowe, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
• With one move, Earn could have made Al a star, if only Clark hadn’t outsmarted him.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
• The tree dated to the 79th Open, when a journeyman pro named Lon Hinkle came up with a way to outsmart the course during the first round.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2020
• As with so many young adult novels, the kids outsmart the adults by being receptive to new ideas.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
• And the scientist also has said the birds are outsmarting us.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• Here’s hoping that in the galactic race, our AI systems will outsmart the aliens.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 12 July 2021
• Or will another player outsmart them both and climb their way to the top to secure the win instead?
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• The show will see 30 players attempt to outsmart each other in a game of secrets for their share of $1 million.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 30 Dec. 2020
• Luckily, a group of kids outsmarts the supernatural forces — with the help of a few adults, of course.
  — Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 5 May 2024
• One of the quickest ways to outsmart the bugs for a little peace of mind is by investing in a pop-up mosquito tent.
  — Jayla Andrulonis, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2021
• He's already outsmarted him, and that can get us a peace deal that will certainly last a long, long time.
  — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2018
• Yes, robots have the potential to outsmart us and destroy the human race.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
• The characters have to rely on their wits to outsmart the firepower and social power of the men around them.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 Feb. 2018
• If Putin outsmarts us on the battlefield and mounts a counter-offensive . . .
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
• So, Enola decides to break the mold and outsmart her brothers by finding her mother herself.
  — Madeline Cisneros, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2024
• The approach should work when the show’s producers scramble to figure out how this cornpone contestant out Lebanon, Ohio, has outsmarted them.
  — Stephen Saito, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024