Example Sentences

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He hopes the Cathedral can serve as an alternative for artists who may not sell enough tickets to fill the Fox, or for artists who have outsold the smaller venues.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025

Heat pumps are growing in popularity and for the last two years have outsold gas furnaces in the United States.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2024

Newer operas, however, have been a bright spot; several have outsold the classics in recent years.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

Why this one, then, and not, say, “Hello” or the even more tear-jerking “Someone Like You”? Well, thus far it appears to have outsold even those other megasellers, going an incredible octuple-platinum.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2018

The lady had a face like a thunder-cloud, and a form that, if whitewashed, would have outsold the 'Greek Slave.'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various