Example Sentences

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Running stats have also improved considerably and Wolves have outrun Liverpool, Chelsea, United, Everton, West Ham, Forest and Villa since the change in management.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

But the private sector may have outrun them.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2023

There’s nothing in the play to suggest that Oedipus could have outrun the prophecy that he would one day murder his father and sleep with his mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2020

It couldn’t have outrun even a human, and that’s why it had a spiny club at the tip of its tail, Horner says: it used it to defend itself against the more agile T. rex.

From The Verge • Jun. 19, 2018

On the ground, on two good feet, I would have been more than a match for the bull, or if not, I could have outrun him.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner