Example Sentences

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Reagan is going to outrun death, he is going to outthink death, he is going to outlaugh death if it is humanly possible.

From Time Magazine Archive

He watched the other men at the party bow, too, clustering around Chief, jostling to outlaugh one another when Chief made a joke.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Well, villain, I only laugh to see That we shall live to outlaugh him and thee.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

Why, I feel that I could outfiddle the cat, outjump the cow, outlaugh the dog, and start an elopement that would knock the performance of the tableware as silly as—well, as I am talking now.

From The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama by Day, Edmund