outran
Use Outran in a sentence
verb
simple past tense of outrun.
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| —vb , -runs, -running, -ran, -run | |
| 1. | to run faster, farther, or better than |
| 2. | to escape from by or as if by running |
| 3. | to go beyond; exceed |
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Example sentences
However, increased housing costs outran wages for lower income residents.
But at other times vehicles outran even their radio connections.
His expenses consistently outran his allowance from his father's estate, setting up a lifelong pattern of bad money management.
The smaller game taking over the continent simply outran them.
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