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How to use outlast in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb

Outlast means to live, last or remain longer than. Example: “The tool outlasted its need.”

Examples of outlast by meaning

verbTo live, last or remain longer than.

  • The tool outlasted its need.
  • Some think that classical music would outlast pop.
  • It is feared that this reprieve may not outlast the summer timetable which, on the section in question, provides only a skeleton of the former service.1960 August, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 468

More sentences with outlast

  • Then we tried to outlast each other on the merry-go-whirl of havoc!1999, Mona the Vampire, "Von Kreepsula Runs Amok" (season 1, episode 2a). From the entry merry-go-whirl
  • Thus he projects humanlike consciousness into the deep, whalekind chronology that, Ishmael says, will outlast humankind's fated time.2021, Rebecca Giggs, Timothy Sweet, page 91. From the entry whalekind
  • German pundits called her Merkelvellian when she outsmarted, isolated or just outlasted anyone who might mount a challenge to her.2015 December 9, “Person of the Year: Angela Merkel”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2018. From the entry Merkelvellian
  • The creative faculty may, and often does, outlast the critical.2010, Robert Scholes, Clifford Wulfman, Modernism in the Magazines: An Introduction, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry doddard
  • Uttering love, that outlasts or outwastes Time's attrition, exiles appear again, But faintly altered in eyes and skin.2001, Geoffrey Hill, “Wreaths”, in Daniel McGuiness, editor, Holding Patterns: Temporary Poetics in Contemporary Poetry, page 74. From the entry outwaste
  • Good or bad they're careerists, they jog two miles a day, and they're all destined to outlast the Ramones.1981, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s, as republished (unabridged) in 1990 asRock albums of the '70s…. From the entry '70s
  • They're guaranteed to outcut and outlast any plier made.1922 Nov, Popular Science. From the entry outcut
  • Homer, the master-builder and rebel against time, in whom the conviction that the ‘winged word’ shall outlast death speaks out in constant jubilation, goes blind.1966, George Steiner, “Silence and the Poet”, in Language and Silence: Essays 1958–1966, London: Faber and Faber, published 2010, →ISBN…. From the entry winged word
  • Ozeki Terunofuji (4-2) outlasted top-ranked maegashira Tochiozan (0-6), while New Year champion Kotoshogiku saw off sekiwake Okinoumi (1-5) with a watashikomi thigh-grabbing pushdown to level his mark at 3-3.2016 November 18, “Goeido, Hakuho fall; Kakuryu still unbeaten”, in The Japan Times. From the entry watashikomi
  • It is not an unreasonable argument, but the effective counter is that they have still managed to outachieve and outlast a generation, with ease and without burning out.2009 July 1, Harvey Araton, “Venus, Serena and a Group of Ladies-in-Waiting”, in New York Times. From the entry outachieve

Meaning of outlast

  1. verb To live, last or remain longer than.

Full definition of outlast

Questions about outlast in a sentence

How do you use outlast in a sentence?
Outlast is used as a verb. For example: “The tool outlasted its need.”
What is a short sentence with outlast?
“The tool outlasted its need.”
What does outlast mean?
Outlast means to live, last or remain longer than.

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