How to Use outjump in a Sentence

outjump

verb

• The ball popped up and Perisic outjumped Tripper to head the ball behind the defense.
  — Ronald Blum, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
• The ball popped up, and Perisic outjumped Trippier to head the ball toward goal.
  — Ronald Blum, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2018
• Then tight end Jimmy Graham outjumped Bush for a jump ball in the end zone.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• Morris outjumped Henry Figueroa and sent a backward header to Wood, who made a nifty chest trap and shot.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
• James intentionally missed his last free throw because the Cavs were down two, and Nance, who was put back into the game for this very play, outjumped everyone and nearly tapped James' miss into the hole.
  — Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• The French earned the chance and executed it perfectly, with Umtiti outjumping Marouane Fellaini to make the connection on the near-post header.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 10 July 2018
• The model suggests that robots can’t yet outjump a trap-jaw in part because such quick, repeatable movements require components to be exquisitely fine-tuned to each other.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
• Zimmerman, making his third international appearance, scored with a header off a corner kick from Joe Corona, outjumping defender Ronald Raldes.
  — Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2018

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