outshine
verb (used with object)
to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
had outshone
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past perfectof outshine.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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These were Haslet's Delaware, and Smallwood's Maryland regiments; the latter the macaronis, in scarlet and buff, who had outshone, in camp, their yeoman fellow-soldiers in home-spun.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
Powers asked her one night at a dinner where she had outshone all others.
From To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
He had taught her too well his own depressing theory that life "mostly consisted of putting up with things," and in practice thereof the pupil had outshone her master.
From The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward
