How to Use outbid in a Sentence

outbid

verb

• Comcast swooped in at the last minute and outbid Fox for Sky.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• The trade was made for the present and the future, but other teams may be in a position to outbid the Celtics.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 31 July 2021
• Last Thursday, the 49ers outbid the Rams in a trade for McCaffrey.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• The platforms will not just outbid for any price anymore — and that’s a good thing for the whole market.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
• The station that outbid its peers to host Prime’s local coach’s show?
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 9 Aug. 2024
• Oxy won the right to acquire Anadarko by outbidding the much larger Chevron.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2019
• The Flyers would probably have to outbid Vegas, which wants the 30-year-old winger back in the fold.
  — Sam Carchidi, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• Soon after, he was outbid for a one-bedroom in Hell’s Kitchen.
  — Joyce Cohen, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• The price paid for the league’s television rights rose rapidly, starting in 1994, the year Fox outbid CBS.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 14 June 2019
• The Yankees outbidding the Giants for Aaron Judge was a good thing for baseball.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• Home shoppers had little to choose from, and many had out outbid others in order to close on a home.
  — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
• In 2018, investors Lyrin Murphy and Steve Day outbid others eyeing the third-of-an-acre site.
  — oregonlive, 19 July 2021
• The battle between the Manchester clubs is likely to come down to who will outbid who.
  — SI.com, 3 July 2019
• As of this week another buyer had outbid the land trust and would inherit the debt to PHH Corp. if the sale closes.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
• Until then, Nadella can continue to try and outbid Google on the iPhone.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 7 Dec. 2022
• Rental yields are now starting to allow BFR investors to outbid the homebuilders.
  — Brad Hunter, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Machado leaves after one year because the Sox can’t outbid the Yankees.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• But a league without salary constraints would lead to teams trying to outbid one other.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 25 July 2019
• The couple thought about buying a place nearby, but all-cash buyers outbid them.
  — C. J. Hughes, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• If push comes to shove, Bayern won't have any troubles outbidding the Gunners.
  — SI.com, 22 July 2019
• The small number of listings has left buyers to try to outbid one another.
  — Elliot Njus, OregonLive.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• The piece in question was a of a young Sidney Poitier, and at one point, Blue Ivy even attempted to outbid herself.
  — Shannon Mahanty, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2018
• That's bad news for Comcast, which has been trying to outbid Disney for the Fox properties.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
• A number of families told the AJC they were outbid by investors for a home on the one hand, only to be stuck renting from them on the other.
  — Brian Eason, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
• As for Wilson, the Browns outbid multiple teams to claim him as an undrafted free agent this year.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2021
• Fox’s fate is far from certain: there’s been a real back-and-forth as both Disney and Comcast vie to outbid each other.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 6 Nov. 2017
• If another team was willing to go get him now, though, then Detroit would have had to outbid that team in July.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2022
• The future Hall-of-Fame starter chose the Mets over them during the offseason, and those dastardly Astros outbid them at the deadline.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• It’s hard to see how Takeaway.com, with a market value of just 4.5 billion euros, could outbid Prosus.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• That worldwide shock generated massive profits for the shipping industry, since retailers raced to outbid each other for scarce space on cargo ships to satisfy consumer appetite.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024