Sentence examples for strove to outdo from inspiring English sources
This was the watch that Graves strove to outdo with his own "Supercomplication".
Temple complexes tended to grow as successive kings strove to outdo their predecessors with the magnificence of their buildings.
Each king strove to outdo his predecessor in the height, size, and splendour of his temple mountain.
For this story of 14th-century Rome, Wagner strove to outdo the spectacle of French grand opera.
Successive home secretaries strove to outdo one another in populist punitive measures, with Howard followed by Labour's draconian Jack Straw, David Blunkett and John Reid.
IN the 1880's and 90's the small apartment houses of Columbus Avenue from 72nd to 77th Street strove to outdo one another in elegance.
Special-effects gurus strove to surpass their previous achievements, and to outdo their rivals' latest mutilations.
Son tried to outdo father.
Sons striving to outdo fathers.
He wanted to outdo himself, outdo the Alien Queen".
