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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In India, even the world’s most visionary filmmakers cannot outrun the inevitable intermission.
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Viren Naidu, IndieWire, 24 Mar. 2025
In most polls of June’s Democratic mayoral primary to date, Cuomo is outrunning Adams by a 3:1 margin.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
Mike White’s insistence that none of us can really outgrow or outrun ourselves is emerging as season three’s relentlessly bleak motif.
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In the morality of early Christians, however, nature was exactly what needed to be outrun.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
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Viren Naidu, IndieWire, 24 Mar. 2025
In most polls of June’s Democratic mayoral primary to date, Cuomo is outrunning Adams by a 3:1 margin.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
Mike White’s insistence that none of us can really outgrow or outrun ourselves is emerging as season three’s relentlessly bleak motif.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
In the morality of early Christians, however, nature was exactly what needed to be outrun.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for outrun
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“Outrun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outrun. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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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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