(1) Some of the men outran the younger ones, who were caught by men in uniform.
(2) The breach set off security alarms but Gonzalez outran pursuing officers, ignoring their commands that he stop, and entered the North Portico doors.
(3) And when Findley outran Danso a few minutes later, we had a game on.
(4) In 2011, Tillerson signed a deal with Putin to partner with Russian oil giant Rosneft to explore and drill for oil in the Arctic, a project that outran native Russian technological capabilities.
(5) Dashing in from the right, Costa outran Fábio Coenträo, controlled with his first touch and, with his second, thumped a superb 20-yard shot low and hard into the far corner.
Outrank
Definition:
(v. t.) To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when viewed through this lens, renewable energy – particularly solar photovoltaic energy, or PV – far outranks coal as the best future energy choice for developing nations,” they said.
(2) In fact, a Roy Morgan poll before the last election listed defence issues as the second least important concern (outranked in unimportance by the needs of people outside of cities).
(3) Antedating and outranking all those is the inherent tendency of the universal contractile chamber to rupture and spill its contents, especially when mural labors encounter sphincteric intransigence.
(4) Epidemiologic research now suggests that FAS has outranked Down's syndrome and spina bifida in prevalence and is now the leading known cause of mental retardation.
(5) I've always been like this, I don't know whether I'm OK until I find out whether you think I'm OK or not, because you outrank me.
(6) Senile dementia and Alzheimer's disease (often considered a single process) rank as the fourth most common cause of death in the United States and outrank in cost to the nation the three leading causes of death combined.
(7) Males started to outrank females from older cohorts during the second year of life and completed the process of rank reversal with adult females at 5-6 years of age.
(8) He or she often outranks the psychologist, has access to the subject population, daily confronts ethical issues surrounding patient diagnoses, and controls communication of information to child and family.
(9) Rank order analysis of these four species in peritoneal exudates and abscess pus showed that the two aerobes outranked the two anaerobes during the early stage of the disease, whereas the reverse was true in abscesses.
(10) Having made one claim, Romney then switches his argument to "the most productive major nation in the world" – which is helpful, since the four that outrank the US in productivity are Norway, Luxembourg and Ireland.
(11) "The government should respond by giving the IPCC the powers and resources to outrank and overrule every chief of police in the land – to become a British 'Untouchables'.
(12) The smaller, independent suppliers outranked the bigger names by a long way.
(13) The officers outranked the militiamen, but were not prepared to take them on, simply backing up their truck and leaving.
(14) D-alpha-tocopheryl acetate resulted in a bioavailability that outranked all the other forms of vitamin E, except those of D-alpha-tocopheryl acetate + TPGS.
(15) Mandible fractures outranked zygomatic and maxillary fractures (6:2:1).
(16) "I don't think there's anything about cinema that outranks televison these days.
(17) On all these measures the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, outranked Abbott – 39% said Shorten was out of touch, 36% said he was trustworthy, 51% said he was a capable leader and 36% said he was arrogant.
(18) But Gilead is the usual kind of dictatorship: shaped like a pyramid, with the powerful of both sexes at the apex, the men generally outranking the women at the same level; then descending levels of power and status with men and women in each, all the way down to the bottom, where the unmarried men must serve in the ranks before being awarded an Econowife.
(19) Christophe Jaffrelot, a political scientist who specialises in extremism in south Asia, says Modi has effectively "emancipated himself" from the RSS high command, who traditionally outrank even senior BJP figures.
(20) Most of the ITD group had significant iron overload, and attending physicians indicated that concern about transfusion related hemosiderosis outranked other reasons including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, that would account for the more conservative transfusion practice of recent years.