Etymology
Origin of outstare
Example Sentences
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Hard men try to outstare each other, to find out who's the hardest.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2010
Portraits of his ecclesiastical ancestors outstare each other from the high walls, and in winter a fire crackles on a Tudor hearth.
From Time Magazine Archive
He can dance like a bear, sing like a frog and outstare an owl.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a hero because he seemed to outstare history, reversing trends and forces that had seemed irrevocable.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I have my professional ethics,” said the Mellower, trying to outstare his mother with his watery blue eyes.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
His body bent, and his eyes—which once could have outstared the sun—grew watery.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
So I lay and stared up at the sky, until the blazing sun outstared me.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
And Christina outstared the countess, so that she was asked whether she would not take another cup of tea.
From Tiny Luttrell by Hornung, Ernest William
For answer Clara outstared him, and he dropped her hands and began to hum.
From Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists by Cannan, Gilbert
Arolind: There were emeralds in it that outstared the sea.
From Plays of Gods and Men by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
On the rock of ages he first opened his eyes to the sun, in noble instinct affronting and outstaring the light.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
The Cobourg seminary outstaring all that is sanctimonious: so airy and lank that learning cannot take root in it.
From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry
The soldiers eyed Mount and his nosegay askance, and Mount cocked his fox-skin cap and ruffled it offensively, outstaring the most insolent of them.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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