How to Use outrace in a Sentence

outrace

verb

• Three times, Kyle Larson needed to outrace the rest of the contenders on late restarts.
  — Noah Trister, courant.com, 18 June 2017
• Etienne might be poised to outrace Alabama's Najee Harris to be the first back off the board, maybe in the first round.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2021
• On the following play, Maes broke up the middle and then to the left sideline before outracing the Nighthawks’ defense to the end zone.
  — Rick Hoff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
• Hollow-core fiber is the latest in a series of advances that fast traders have used to try to outrace their competition.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
• The government is hoping that vaccines may outrace the new variant.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• This is about chasing a title while LeBron James still is outracing time.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Some people try to deny that the window is closing, thinking Curry might be the one guy who can outrace Father Time.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Oct. 2021
• Their rapid-fire sentences overlap and outrace each other — Brydon and Coogan are like twin squirrels trying to climb a ladder at the same time.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Aug. 2017
• In the second, Africentric playing in a full court frenzy just as the Wildcats have all year, was able to outrace their opponent for a nine-point halftime lead.
  — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 24 Mar. 2018
• Following the Marshall score, Johnston found Shropshire again on third down with a 71-yard touchdown pass that saw the receiver shrug off a defender and outrace the rest of the defense to the end zone.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 19 Dec. 2020
• Fifty miles south, in Astoria, commercial fishing trawlers try to outrace the tsunami by heading up the Columbia River.
  — Bruce Barcott, Outside Online, 25 Aug. 2011
• Vaccine officials are trying to outrace a surging rate of infections.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
• Viral videos posted online show rhinos aggressively chasing visitors in India safari parks as the drivers do their best to outrace the beasts.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Morris uses more natural speed to outrace opponents to balls and has certainly enjoyed plenty of chances this season — though without finishing the vast majority of them.
  — Geoff Baker, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
• Collaboration is necessary to outrace malicious actors in the near future, Harrington, Wang and others say.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
• Still, the mounting evidence suggests that mutant viruses can diminish the efficacy of vaccines, increasing the pressure on countries to quickly vaccinate their populations and outrace the variants.
  — New York Times, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• Macron's administration has been hoping to outrace the resurgent outbreak with its vaccination campaign, an ambition that appears increasingly unrealistic as hospitals struggle.
  — John Leicester and Jeffrey Schaeffer, Star Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024