Example sentences for: outstripped

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

  • Areport from Phnom Penh in the South China Morning Post quoted the Cambodian Ministry of Health as saying that traffic accidents now outstripped land mine and other war-related injuries as a major cause of death in Cambodia.

  • "Inappropriate" easily outstripped "evil," a word that appeared in the Congressional Record a mere 250 times, though--William Bennett, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and other denouncers of moral relativism take note-- it still lagged behind "wrong," which appeared in excess of 999 times (the CR search engine doesn't count beyond three digits).

  • Though the singular insanity is far outstripped by the multiple mania, one can expect, in this age of downsizing, to encounter more of the less and less of the more.

  • The press in Britain agreed that Churchill had anyway far outstripped Adolf Hitler in artistic talent.

  • In Britain, the Times, under the headline "Clinton's tactics pay off for Democrats," reported that "stunned Democrats woke up yesterday to find their election victories had outstripped their loftiest predictions."


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