Outstrip

Examples

• All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Jo drew a long breath and unclasped her hands as she watched the poor fellow trying to outstrip the trouble which he carried in his heart. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Bingley and Jane, however, soon allowed the others to outstrip them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• That the United States has from the beginning far outstripped the rest of the civilized world in the growth of the telephone is shown by comparison. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Marianne was astonished to find how much the imagination of her mother and herself had outstripped the truth. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Nature at another point had outstripped him, yet he had broadened his own sum of knowledge to a prodigious extent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Robert Fulton’s friend, the Duke of Bridgewater, had been of some help with his canal system, but the trade quickly outstripped this service. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They soon outstripped the others, and when they had reached the carriage, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner were half a quarter of a mile behind. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I ran the same way, outstripping a good many, and soon came facing the wild sea. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The young are seldom in Elysium, for their desires, outstripping possibility, leave them as poor as a moneyless debtor. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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