out-distance

Example Sentences

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He did, however, concede that the Japanese player was likely to out-distance him at the tee-off.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2017

Even if I started running, I couldn’t out-distance all of them.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Every device is utilized by each to out-distance the other in the scramble.

From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Prince, Samuel Henry

At last the Stirmingham, Daily News hit upon a good idea to out-distance its great rival the Stirmingham Daily Post.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

Then she would touch her horse with her spurs of gold when far away in the forest, and laughingly calling to Jazr to follow, soon out-distance all her pursuers.

From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon