How to Use outpace in a Sentence

outpace

verb
  • The increase in housing costs in the last five years outpaced wage gains.
    Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Global heat records outpace cold records — 2023 was the hottest year on record by a huge margin.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Warm records far outpace cooler ones and the gap is growing.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But iPhone revenue will outpace unit sales growth thanks to the price increase.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Over the past two decades, health care costs have far outpaced inflation.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Wallen outpaced Bad Bunny in streams from Tampa this year and claimed his No. 3 spot.
    Yacob Reyes, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Last year, the District surpassed 200 homicides for the first time in over a decade, and the city is on track to outpace that grim milestone this year.
    Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • And wage growth for workers has outpaced price increases over the past year.
    Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • The senior outpaced Sharon’s Nina Kyei-Aboagye by .64 ticks.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 22 Feb. 2025
  • She’s already outpaced her sales for the entirety of last year.
    Megan Sauer, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The tech-heavy Nasdaq has been outpacing the broader S&P 500 by a wide margin.
    Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Four-year colleges outpace two-years on total costs, but not by much.
    Rebecca Griesbach | , al, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Sheriff’s deputies driving 45 mph couldn’t outpace the flames.
    Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Look to the future and plant small trees, which will be better adapted to their new homes and soon outpace the unwieldy and root-butchered big, new tree.
    Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The stock has soared 34% this year, far outpacing the broader Hang Seng Index's 1.5% gain.
    Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 31 July 2023
  • Kansas City home prices have outpaced the increases in both states.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2024
  • That will happen when Indian growth is tipped to outpace China’s in a big way in 2023.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The worst of the latest delta wave has crested, but infections and deaths here still outpace other states.
    Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
  • At some point, demand for a product needs to outpace spending.
    Bill Alena, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But in many of these places, housing supply has outpaced demand.
    Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Lumen Christi got off to a relatively slow start, but used a big third quarter to outpace the Shamans.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But the eviction filings increase has outpaced the Valley's growth.
    Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The Eagles had an extra week of rest after a bye and should outpace Washington.
    New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • They're sort of outpaced in terms of onboarding sellers.
    Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Since 2013, the toll from heat deaths in the county has outpaced casualties from any single weather event in the same year, and trends show the gap is widening.
    Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Chiefs’ nail-biter win overall outpaced other playoff games that took place last weekend.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The Journal wrote this week that companies may outpace new content by 2028.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2024
  • But unlike past years, that's not enough to outpace inflation.
    Fortune, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Adding to the concern: A majority of those surveyed said that their incomes are growing more slowly than inflation, with fewer than 20% of people in all age brackets saying their personal earnings are outpacing prices.
    Josh Fellman, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The automaker has steadily lost electric vehicle market share to its competitors, while its largest rival in China is outpacing it with advances in driver-assistance software, which Musk has staked out as a cornerstone of his business.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025

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