Example Sentences

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And when the Aces called timeout with eight-tenths of a seconds remaining, with the full-throated roar still echoing through Climate Pledge, it seemed as if she had outdone herself.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2022

An actual rainbow arched over the park’s thunder-shower-soaked parking lot as the sun set, prompting several attendees to joke that Disney had outdone itself with Pride theming this year.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022

There was just one problem: Light’s marketing material suggested the phone was “designed to be used as little as possible,” and the creators had outdone themselves.

From The Verge • Sep. 4, 2019

With the “Subterranean” clip, Pennebaker and Dylan had outdone them by inventing the promotional music video, some 25 years before MTV.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2019

She really had outdone herself, and she had never, she realized now, given herself the proper admiration that was her due.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill