Sentence examples for was outstripped from inspiring English sources
verb
To outrun or leave behind.
- We quickly outstripped the amateur runners.
Soon it was outstripped and absorbed by Kōbe, which has a deeper harbour.
His flickering chamber of horrors was outstripped or refuted by personal experience.
Hutchison's purism as a collector, it turned out, was outstripped by his perfectionism in the studio.
In terms of its per capita share of foreign investment, Java was outstripped by some of the outer provinces.
Official figures have shown the economy was outstripped only by the US among the large economies last year after growth in the third quarter was upgraded to 0.6%.
Group revenue was up 10.9% year on year, but that was outstripped by costs including a fuel bill that rose by more than 20%.
Fourthly, to say that death is not to be outstripped (unüberholbar) simply means that death is pretty damned important.
The appetite for walk-in wardrobes and wet-rooms is outstripped, however, by demand for the hajj.
The smart watch could, potentially, be the rare province in the tech industry where function is outstripped by fashion.
But the state of the union itself could yet be in the hands of radicals whose eagerness to see the president fail is outstripped only by their zeal to make an ideological point, even if it forces America into default.
"The rising cost of an average UK funeral is very concerning; it's outstripped inflation considerably for many years –almost in line with house price rises, which as we know continue to rise rapidly as demand outstrips supply," Royal London funeral cost expert Simon Cox said.
