Example sentences for: outnumber

How can you use “outnumber” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A piece notes the growth of the private police industry: Security guards and rent-a-cops now outnumber police officers 3-to-1.

  • USA Today quotes a pregnant woman interviewed while videotaping the approaching storm on a rain-drenched Corpus Christi beach, while the Washington Post notes that in Kenedy County and adjacent Kleberg County the "cattle ... vastly outnumber the humans."

  • In Roget's Thesaurus , words associated with falsity outnumber those associated with veracity by about 5-to-1.

  • An analysis of Buchnera pseudogenes showed that deletions outnumber insertions (31 versus 2) and that the number of nucleotides deleted is over 100-fold greater than those inserted [ 21].

  • The ruins or the disappeared outnumber the survivors by several thousand to one.


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