Example sentences for: outrunning

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

  • The nature and scope of the cultural transformation that needs to take place in many agencies across the federal government will take years to accomplish-easily outrunning the tenures of most political appointees.

  • “You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burro.”

  • But Whale's plangent ruminations are slack as well: "I've spent much of my life outrunning the past, and now it floods all over," he tells Boone, in what is surely the most generic line for a "memory play" ever written.

  • Rolling Stone reporter William B. Greider has just published a widely heralded new book titled One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism . And his book is exactly as I have described it: a massive, panoramic description of the world economy, which piles fact upon fact (some of the crucial facts turn out to be wrong, but that is another issue) in apparent demonstration of the thesis that global supply is outrunning global demand.


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