be outdistanced

When an oil rig has an engine and a propeller, however – when she is classed as a vessel; a mobile she, not a stationary it – regulations can be outdistanced.

Although Carl Oaks had been left far behind, the other man was not to be outdistanced.

Shall men who have used their legs to rush upon the enemy be outdistanced in life, because they no longer have those legs, by men who have sat and warmed their toes at an office-fire?

The President was not to be outdistanced on another front.

The Japanese Akagi and Kaga would be outdistanced in a day.