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edging out
verb as in defeat narrowly
Weak matches
Example Sentences
He hit three bull finishes as he beat World Grand Prix champion Mike de Decker 10-3 earlier on Sunday, before edging out Ross Smith 11-9 in a topsy-turvy last-four encounter.
Far short of securing some decisive mandate, Trump appears to have received less than 50% of the vote, edging out Vice President Kamala Harris by one of the smallest popular-vote margins in history.
Just edging out the highest-grossing animated film of all time is a quirky, painted-looking parenting parable.
It also went down to the wire in New Orleans, where the Saints ended their seven-game losing run by edging out the Atlanta Falcons in interim head coach Darren Rizzi's first game in charge.
Storey, 46, won the C4-5 women’s road race to claim her 19th career Paralympic gold, edging out France’s Heidi Gaugain at the finish.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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