How to Use outvote in a Sentence

outvote

verb

• The boys might be able to outvote from here 'till kingdom come.
  — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 24 Apr. 2018
• Through this transfer, Garces was able to outvote the investors by 3-2.
  — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 8 June 2018
• If Mary benefits from the park and Raymond is harmed by it, then Mary will outvote Raymond.
  — Eric Posner and Glen Weyl, Vox, 29 June 2018
• Will Democrats and Independents do so in enough numbers to outvote them?
  — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2018
• By crowding blacks into a few districts (and denying them the vote), the framers ensured that whites could never be outvoted.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• The crowd listened politely, yes, and then outvoted him.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 June 2019
• The early reports were focused on15 big counties in Texas and the Democrats outvoted the Republicans in those 15 big counties.
  — Fox News, 11 Mar. 2018
• The transaction, which will value Grab at $40 billion, ensures that Tan will be able to outvote any outside investors.
  — Gregor Stuart Hunter, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2021
• Then the conservative board members outvoted Tucker to remove them from the rolls.
  — Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 13 July 2023
• Note that, in Newey’s world, emotion is clearly outvoted by performance.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 15 Mar. 2018
• That was a change over four years ago, when Republicans outvoted Democrats in early balloting.
  — Mike Ward, Houston Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2018
• The stakes are high, and although women traditionally outvote men even in non-presidential years, that doesn’t mean it’s always easy for us.
  — Celeste Katz, Glamour, 27 Aug. 2018
• Those weren’t the only races where Democrats outvoted Republicans.
  — David Weigel, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• This led to Volcker being outvoted on a rate decision in 1986, though his opponents backed down.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Twin Cities, 9 Dec. 2019
• And-- and for Republicans who are-- who are outvoted, ultimately on a-- on a committee like this not being in the majority, what-- what would that mean for them?
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2019
• At issue is a pattern in which a simple majority of board members are outvoting the interests of residents.
  — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2020
• Yesterday, Democrats outvoted Republicans in only one of those, the 49th.
  — David Weigel, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• In recent years, Republicans have dramatically outvoted Democrats in primaries, but this year the trend appears to be shifting.
  — Alejandra Matos, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• The notion that the younger electorate can outvote baby boomers to reduce their benefits significantly is highly doubtful.
  — Edward Conard, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017
• Young people may completely surprise us this cycle and outvote a lot of different demographics.
  — Saba Hamedy, CNN, 27 May 2018
• But if those voters are outvoted by people in France or Belgium, there will be much less willingness to accept the outcome because there is no broader solidarity across Europe.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• Some investors balked at PetSmart’s terms and demanded tighter covenants, but they were ultimately outvoted by yield-hungry bondholders.
  — Soma Biswas, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• The committee’s Brexit supporters were outvoted several times about the contents of its fourth report, issued today.
  — Robert Hutton, Bloomberg.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Though Democrats saw a larger surge in primary voters, Republicans still outvoted Democrats, casting a record 1.5 million ballots.
  — Nicole Gaudiano, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2018
• But they were outvoted, rendering sentiment less relevant than the sheer practicality of a spring in which clocks are visible at every turn at Fenway South.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• In a boardroom gambit that Garces’ side said was perfectly legal, the chef divided his ownership stake into three corporate pieces — and thus was able to outvote his two partners, 3-2, to approve filing for bankruptcy.
  — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
• But mostly there was a lot of what has been the core problem of the party — a self-perpetuating majority narrowly outvoting an impassioned, slight minority who want to change the status quo.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 14 Oct. 2019
• But younger generations are also now outvoting their elders.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• These things do not help, but the uncomfortable truth is that in low-turnout electoral politics, a smaller, cohesive, motivated group can go on outvoting a larger, disparate, apathetic group for a long time.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• In northern cities, a sneering establishment worried that the system was dominated by a working-class majority who could always outvote them.
  — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024