Example sentences for: outnumber

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

  • She, too, is deified and in a façade of six colossi 111/2 m (38 ft) high stands at equal height to her husband — a very rare honor for a consort in Egypt — though his statues outnumber hers by 2:1, a more subtle indication of his supreme power.

  • The NYT quantifies the situation, noting that in Kosovo, ethnic Albanians outnumber Serbs nine to one.

  • 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."

  • If we outnumber this alien being, our instinct tells us to kill it and ask questions later (or, at the very least, discriminate against it and keep it in a manageable place).

  • Beaches on Fuerteventura still outnumber hotels.


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