outfly
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of outfly
Example Sentences
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“It’s hard for a bee to outfly a fire.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2022
One of the best adapted seabirds in the northern hemisphere, they can outfly other seabirds and speed from shelf to coast in a few hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2020
Big players like Parrot will look to outfly the competition.
From Time ● Jan. 4, 2016
If the brain was merely a biological machine, there was no theoretical reason that it could not be replicated, or even surpassed, much the way a jet could outfly a falcon.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 23, 2015
They worked as hard as their male counterparts, and they were able to outfly all the other Po-2 bomber regiments for sheer numbers in their nightly missions.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
It was a sticky day, and he guzzled Gatorade as he liberated large chunks of turf that on more than one occasion outflew his ball.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2011
In fact, it appeared to the boys that they actually outflew the wind.
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by Goldfrap, John Henry
Now the warrior host of Hell:-- He spake; and, to confirm his words, outflew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell.
From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
Her excited imagination outflew even the inventions of La Corriveau.
From The Golden Dog by Kirby, William
Forward rode Niels Ebbesen, Spurred his steed till blood outflew; With his men the Count remained, No one dared the knight pursue.
From Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne two ballads by Borrow, George Henry
Israeli pilots in their U.S.-built F-4 Phantoms and Skyhawks and French Mirages have consistently outflown the Egyptian and Syrian air forces in their Russian-made SU-7 fighter-bombers and MIG-21 interceptors.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the air, the Russians were outnumbered, outgunned and outflown.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, he had to do what was best for the team, and Dean had outflown Seamus at the tryouts.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
He had outflown the Irishman and was grinning.
From A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. by Montgomery, Rutherford George
That sky-piercing peak was ever the centre of their universe, and the wandering sea-bird has outflown their thoughts.
From In the Footprints of the Padres by Stoddard, Charles Warren
These five had the strange experience of outflying the roar of their own rocket motors.
From Time Magazine Archive
They felt it was because their maintenance system allowed them to fly nearly twice as many missions each night as other Po-2 regiments, and they were extremely proud of themselves for outflying the men!
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
And away went the grotesque race up the Corso degli Adimari—the horse with the singular jockey, the contadina with the remarkable hose, and the doctor in lather and spectacles, with furred mantle outflying.
From Romola by Eliot, George
But when as homeward bound we speed, The swift sea-bird outflying, With throbbing heart I watch the land, Its blue hills far descrying; Impatient, now, to leave the sea.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
Victor ran with outflying arms to a pair of hanging ones, which the owner in his agony could not raise.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
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