outrival
Example Sentences
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But it's strange to see him come back so abundant, so eloquent, so cut up, as it were, into hundreds of little devils all trying to outrival each other .
From Time Magazine Archive
In death as in life he still remains a man of mystery, with a fortune that would outrival the wildest dreams of a fairy prince.
From Time Magazine Archive
These mines of the Nevada deserts excel in the richness and abundance of their ores, while in the future these camps bid fair to outrival in development all other sections of the United States.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello
She knew full well that she could yet outrival younger women, that even her much-admired daughter-in-law would not place her in the shade.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
Their names were few,—but Agassiz was one, And Peirce, the lord of numbers, and alone: Arithmeticians many more will be, But when another to outrival thee?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various
