Example Sentences

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Claude Carter represents the obvious danger on the formbook, but the selection should be able to outspeed him.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2011

Carrier pigeons fly at about 70 m.p.h., can outspeed most hawks if they see them coming.

From Time Magazine Archive

Newest members of the flotilla are the catamarans, which will easily outspeed many power boats.

From Time Magazine Archive

Designed as a carrier craft, it is fast enough for land operations, will outspeed most land-based craft now in combat.

From Time Magazine Archive

No crime can outspeed Justice,   Who, resting, seems delayed— Full faith accord the angel   Who points the patient blade.

From Poems by Hugo, Victor