outwear
verb (used with object)
to wear or last longer than; outlast.
will outwear
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future tenseof outwear.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Yet the social and moral order of the Main Line lingers, as a good upper will outwear its sole.
From Time Magazine Archive
The kind manufactured for hotels and restaurants and of sufficient capacity, is more expensive, but will outwear two outfits of the cheaper type and is really more economical in the long run.
From Camping For Boys by Henry William Gibson
A pair of gauntlets will outwear three or four pairs of gloves.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
This Brussels will outwear two ingrain carpets, at a very little advance on the first cost.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Needles and thread do not constantly break; no soaping of seams is required; the goods not being overbleached will outwear goods bleached by the old process.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various
