Example Sentences

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It looks and feels like wool, but outwears it, costs only half as much, is washable and mothproof�and is virtually wrinkleproof.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kiss Delia's hand for her sweet prophet's sake, Whose not affected but well couchèd tears Have power, have worth, a marble mind to shake, Whose fame no iron-age or time outwears.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote

"An observant eye is better than a yearning ear, and patience outwears curiosity!"

From Caves of Terror by Mundy, Talbot

For the sword outwears its sheath,   And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe,   And love itself have rest.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

"Love is the greatest Amulet that makes this world a garden: and 'Hope comes to all' outwears the accidents of life; and reaches with tremulous hands beyond the grave and Death."

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud