Etymology
Origin of outsing
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“Truth, honesty. The guy could outsing 99 percent of us,” Brooks said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
She took her time with it here, showing off the piercing thickness in her voice, even as seemingly each of the few thousand people in attendance was trying to outsing her.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
"Michael didn't outdance Paul, and Paul didn't outsing Michael," says ever so diplomatic Director Bob Giraldi, 44, of the newly released Paul McCartney-Michael Jackson rock video Say Say Say.
From Time Magazine Archive
She could outsing anybody, and she left a trail of resentful steppingstones behind her.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few everyday birds gathered on a branch, trying to outsing one particular bird with silver wings and a golden head, its body as big as a crow’s.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Echols, in particular, outsang everyone else on stage in some of the ensembles.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2015
At 20, she outsang 2,000 contestants to win the annual audition and a contract at the Metropolitan Opera.
From Time Magazine Archive
I once had a singing contest with ten deacons and beat every one of them, for I outsang them in the Credo, all ten of them.
From Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus by Holberg, Ludvig, baron
For one thing, the mocking-birds outsang themselves till I felt, and wrote, that I had never heard mocking-birds before.
From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford
Shelley outsang all poets on record but some two or three throughout all time; his depths and heights of inner and outer music are as divine as nature's, and not sooner exhaustible.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
England's fans, who seemed outnumbered around the stadium before kick-off, were suddenly outsinging the champions' support, with Swing Low sweeping the stands.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
The little waves were glittering and dancing in the sunshine, and chiming with the merry carols of the larks, outsinging one another in the blue sky overhead.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Stretton, Hesba
They were not really spinning,—any one could see that, but they were sticking very closely to their business of each outsinging the other, and collectively of drowning out the orchestra.
From Long Live the King! by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Germany fans were vastly outnumbered and deafeningly outsung, their only real cheer coming when Ilkay Gundogan scored from the penalty spot for a 1-0 half-time lead.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2022
They outsung the Wigan fans and backed us throughout the whole game.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2013
"Thou hast so outsung the bird that he hath flown."
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)
Sixtus Beckmesser remained triumphant, and Walter left the church while the Masters pronounced the decree,— "Outdone and outsung."
From Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German by Bender, Millicent Schwab
The masters declare him outsung and rejected, but Hans Sachs befriends him, and demands he shall have a chance for the prize.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)
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