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How to use outrun in a sentence

18 example sentences · verb, noun

Outrun means to run faster than. Example: “Can a tiger outrun a lion?”

Examples of outrun by meaning

verbTo run faster than.

  • Can a tiger outrun a lion?
  • I don't need to outrun the bear; I just need to outrun you.
  • Hearing the engineer of Extra 3119 West repeatedly report his speed as being 80 mph, the VAN engineer believed the other train had reached maximum speed and that he could outrun it.1981 August 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “Role of Dispatcher”, in Railroad Accident Report: Rear-End Collision of Union...

More sentences with outrun

  • He calls himself a sprinter? I could outrun him any day of the week!From the entry any day of the week
  • The pilot pushed over into a dive to try to outrun the enemy fighters.From the entry push over
  • It were a woodly country and de boy outrun he chasers.2020, United States Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives. From the entry woodly
  • Yet somehow the capuchins manage to either outwit or outrun the forest’s legions of parasites.2009 February 3, Natalie Angier, “GPS for Forest Creatures on the Move”, in New York Times. From the entry capuchins
  • He could not outrun the car behind him, but he could outdrive his opponent.2002, Robert Jonathan Tristani, A Virtual Kill, page 303. From the entry stand still
  • When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., “The World House”, in Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →OCLC…. From the entry misguided
  • Levantin could outrun, outhike, and outjump both Miller and Komito.2008, Mark Obmascik, The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, →ISBN, page 241. From the entry outhike
  • He was outrunning the anger of weightlessness.2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry eyeballer
  • A manager who underplans and then overachieves his plan has outrun it and is left with no plan at all.1983, Mack Hanan, Leading edge growth strategies: new approaches for accelerated business growth and premium profits in the next twenty…. From the entry underplan
  • He’s not faster than any of the linebackers or lineman, but that doesn’t keep him from trying to outrun and outjuke them all.2017 August 12, Whirledworld, “Why Case Keenum Can — and Can’t — Be A Franchise Quarterback”, in PurplePTSD. From the entry outjuke
  • Now believe it or not, kangaroos are actually quite fast and can easily outrun (or perhaps outhop is more appropriate) a human.2015 September 11, Yoni Heisler, “Kangaroo chase sends two golfers running for their lives”, in BGR. From the entry outhop
  • Such a trail will seem a snap to follow, and even better, nobody aboard a limpsome pony could hope to outrun 'em all the way to the railroad line.2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Wild Bunch. From the entry limpsome
  • My whole life I had been forced together with him at every family gathering, and he had used every opportunity to out-throw me, outrun me, out-eat me.2012, Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads. From the entry out-throw
  • If you do happen to come across one, you should exit stage left at normal pace (you won't outrun a bear) and without your picnic basket.".2004, Setsunai, chapter IV, in On Gaien Higashi Dori: The Bells. From the entry exit stage left
  • Her chest was hurting already — no star-traveller had the stamina to outrun a planetsider—and she knew she could not keep up her pace for much longer.1985, Melissa Scott, Five-Twelfths of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 307. From the entry planetsider

Meaning of outrun

  1. verb To run faster than.
  2. verb To exceed or overextend.
  3. noun In ski jumping, the flat or uphill area past the landing point, where the skier can slow down.

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Questions about outrun in a sentence

How do you use outrun in a sentence?
Outrun is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Can a tiger outrun a lion?”
What is a short sentence with outrun?
“Can a tiger outrun a lion?”
What does outrun mean?
Outrun means to run faster than.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outrun (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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