outplay

Example Sentences

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It was the kind of exposure that could help keep the team from fraying if one side of the ball vastly outplays the other.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2024

As Dravid said recently: "If we keep executing our skills and somebody outplays us and beats us, then good luck. We shake their hand and walk away."

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2023

And if Daccord outplays Driedger in preseason, I don’t see a financial reason to stick with the guy coming off knee surgery.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Like Steinitz, Zukertort won most of his games from the locals, but Sellman outplays him here.

From Washington Times • May 24, 2022

The scene where a wicked Mme. de S—— plays, and almost outplays, Potiphar's wife to the good but hideous Dean's Joseph is one of the most curious in novel-literature, though one of the least amusing.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George