outrun
Example Sentences
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“By land, air or sea, our Armed Forces will find you and deliver justice. You will run out of fuel long before you will outrun us.”
If there was a ghost—which common sense told her there wasn’t —a good pair of legs could probably outrun it.
From Literature
It was not the storm I was trying to outrun; it was Mr. Dowuona’s special welcome.
From Literature
They couldn’t outrun it, but perhaps they could hide.
From Literature
In his first final since Wimbledon in 2024, he suffered yet another violent reminder that time—and Alcaraz—were two opponents he could no longer outrun.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
