How to Use outnumber in a Sentence

outnumber

verb

• But most of the time, almost all the time, I’m outnumbered.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
• The people who lived in Rafah before the war are outnumbered four to one by the displaced.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• In most instances, the staff outnumber the leaders 15 to one.
  — Randy Shattuck, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• As for Henry’s touches in the game, go back and look at the film and see how many times the Browns outnumbered the Ravens around the line of scrimmage.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
• They were outnumbered for most of the day by journalists.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• And, as in so many fields, at first the skeptics vastly outnumbered the early-adopters.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 15 May 2024
• For the first time since the AfD’s rise over the last 10 years, supporters in Berlin outnumbered counterprotesters.
  — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• Wind turbines outnumbered oil structures by the end of 2020.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
• That’s kind of a big deal in a place where Catholics alone once outnumbered evangelicals by about 2 to 1.
  — The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
• Normally, all hair goes through these stages at random and the growing hairs on the rest of the head outnumber the hairs that fall out.
  — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2024
• The nice stories, however, were outnumbered by the grim ones.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
• Shawn Johnson East and her husband are about to be outnumbered.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Nonproducing wells that haven’t been plugged now outnumber active wells in the gulf, the study says.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• So, too, does giving a voice to voters, even if they’re outnumbered.
  — Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024
• The flies far outnumbered the two live and one dead roaches, although that one dead roach did mar a clean cutting board.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• On that battlefield, the U.S. Army’s artillery pieces would be outnumbered by the Russians’ by a ratio of at least two to one.
  — Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
• But at a meeting in early February, on the second floor of city hall, the alders were outnumbered.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Cattle far outnumber wild horses on the range and compete for the same resources.
  — Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 June 2022
• Police have been besieged and outnumbered to combat the armed gangs.
  — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
• In a region where stone shrines outnumber churches by the hundred, St. George's feels like a rare relic.
  — Melanie Hamilton, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
• The stores are far outnumbered by their unlicensed competitors, more than 1,500 of which have set up shop in New York City alone.
  — Ashley Southall, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• And in both states, only-Trump voters are outnumbered by the third of the electorate who aren't considering him at all.
  — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
• They are outnumbered by men 26 to 1 in the S&P leadership ranks, a gap five times wider than the disparity for white women.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Mar. 2023
• In the future, the elderly could outnumber the young, leaving not enough workers to pay taxes and fill jobs.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
• Golf carts and mopeds seem to outnumber cars; zipping through the streets with coolers bungeed to the back is integral to life in the Conch Republic.
  — Erinne Magee, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• Grimes had told his family so much about him and theirs is the kind of home where animals outnumber people.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• White deaths by suicide far outnumber those of Black people.
  — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• The few people who choose to live there are vastly outnumbered by sheep, rabbits and the whales and dolphins that frolic in the cobalt seas surrounding the rocky coast line.
  — Kate Duffy, Fortune Europe, 24 May 2024
• There have been - and there will be - many days and nights when Yankees fans badly outnumber Orioles rooters here.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• The outcome was all but assured in a heavily blue state where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly two to one, according to data from Pew Research.
  — Nico Lang, Them, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024