Example Sentences

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In good time, if the boy is kept growing, he will have outgrown his stone-bruises, his chapped hands, his freckles, his warts, and his physical and spiritual awkwardness.

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Pearson, Francis B.

I am so thankful Fred goes away to-morrow for a year! and I do hope by that time he will have outgrown that wretched, commonplace youth.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

The brooding-house should be filled with chicks in November and December, which they will have outgrown by February, when the building will be required for ducklings.

From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by Rankin, James