Example Sentences

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Then, showing some slight embarrassment, he explained that he had been "outrunning the constable."

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)

The engineer saw that this was going to be a different kind of race from the yelling, chattering troop of wild riders which he had been outrunning with unbroken regularity.

From The Duke Of Chimney Butte by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)