outbid

How To Use outbid In A Sentence

• Using the huge resources at their disposal to outbid potential rivals for property is another favoured technique, he argues. Times, Sunday Times
• Firstly, somebody outbid me in the last two minutes of an auction.
• Here, it looks as though investors could absorb the extra tax bill and still outbid their rivals. Times, Sunday Times
• We appear to have reached a point where it is generally accepted, that all political parties must outbid and outpromise each other at election time, in this field. A New Voice In Confederation
• This person, because of his low bid, will miss out on the opportunity to own the car altogether since his rivals will simply outbid him.
• They just outbid us and that was a disappointment.
• I was outbid on everything but the filters, which I'd only really bid on to reduce postage from the seller.
• US would have a good sense and the cleverness and the ability to enter the black market and engage is what we used to call preclusive purchase...if NK thinks it can sell a nuclear weapon for $1bn, we ought to be in there offering $5bn" - Schelling quoted the outbidding of natural resources in WWII, I would add the successful control of balck market in ex-USSR states, and that it is cheaper to buy out North Korea today than tomorrow Schelling on North Korea
• If anyone outbids me in the next hour I'm going to unleash my fists of fury.
• A private gentleman, and he must really have liked what he saw in the catalogue, because he outbid two different cepheid houses. A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows