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outdrive

[ out-drahyv ]

adjective

, Nautical.


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Example Sentences

Still, this good-guys-outdriving-the-devil adventure—written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh, an old-school veteran of action-movie scripts—has its blunt charms, and offers more than one instance of Neeson punching a guy in the face.

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Evelyn and Grant can outdrive me all right; but they're not in it with me on putting.

Isn't this the young man who had the presumption to outdrive me forty yards every time we stepped to a tee?

Down the wind it was quite another story: I could outdrive her usefully with the wind behind.

He wanted to outdrive the other by fifty yards and ordinarily would have done so.

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