How to Use outstrip in a Sentence

outstrip

verb

• The fullback outstripped the defenders and scored a touchdown.
• The new hotel outstrips all other hotels in the area in size and luxury.
• In key swing states, the changes far outstrip Mr. Trump’s narrow 2016 margins.
  — Lazaro Gamio, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
• The increases are the result of births outstripping deaths.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
• At his side at the air meet was his 8-year-old granddaughter Florence, whose fame came to outstrip his.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• The need for organs far outstrips the number that are available.
  — John Bonifield, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
• The need for organs far outstrips the number that are available.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• The Fed says the demand for workers is still outstripping supply.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• But what’s at stake appears to outstrip even that level of value.
  — Daniele Lepido, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• This time around, some experts predict the costs could outstrip that work stoppage.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• Yet the demand for organs still far outstrips the supply.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• That accomplishment would far outstrip the goal laid out by Pres.
  — Emily Brindley, courant.com, 6 May 2021
• The process is costly and demand is likely to outstrip supply.
  — Riley Griffin, Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• Officials always knew that the country would reach a point where the supply of once-scarce shots would outstrip the demand.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 3 June 2021
• That far outstripped the roughly 7 percent gain in the S&P 500 stock index during the quarter.
  — Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• There is concern about how vastly demand for the Swift item will outstrip the supply.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Apr. 2022
• Prices for some staples, such as eggs, have surged as demand far outstrips supply.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020
• For several months the demand will outstrip the supply.
  — Scott Gottlieb, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2020
• The argument has been that a spike in demand for goods and services will outstrip supply, causing prices to rise.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• How, the novel asks, will this young man live up to the impossible ideals that outstrip his good intentions?
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
• One review of the research found that the benefits — not just to children but to society — far outstrip the costs.
  — Cory Turner, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
• In coming weeks, the supply of doses may outstrip demand.
  — Author: Joel Achenbach, Jacqueline Dupree, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2021
• More and more people rush in to buy shares until the firm outstrips Microsoft and becomes the most valuable company in the world.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 21 June 2024
• The judge said interest in the case will continue to outstrip the court's ability to provide access to the trial in the courthouse.
  — Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
• As the number of Hispanic residents born in Texas outstrips the number of white people born in the state, there has been a notable change in the work force.
  — Robert Gebeloff, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• In many cases, the hype has far outstripped companies’ ability to adapt.
  — Jo Constantz, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• While plenty of job-hunters are drawn to the energy of a high-growth company, demand still tends to outstrip supply.
  — Katya Laviolette, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Rather quickly, the old legal and social controls were outstripped.
  — K.n.c., The Economist, 13 Dec. 2019
• Fatalities have risen by more than 50 percent since the turn of the century, outstripping population growth.
  — Monika Mondal, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2024
• When Landon died of lung cancer in 2007, newspaper stories speculated that his fortune outstripped that of Queen Elizabeth.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024