Etymology
Origin of outwalk
Example Sentences
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It suggests that we are clever today in part because a million years ago, we could outrun and outwalk most other mammals over long distances.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2012
The wager is the outcome of a jocular remark made by Gray to the effect that he would outwalk any man his age from Banbury to Oxford.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He can outwalk either of us," they said.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Sears knows her age better than I do, but she was then in her 40s at least, and could probably outwalk the New Frontiersmen today.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other fact is, that one side of a man always tends to outwalk the other side, so that no person can walk far in a straight line, if he is blindfolded.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.
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