How To Use Outbid In A Sentence
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Using the huge resources at their disposal to outbid potential rivals for property is another favoured technique, he argues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Firstly, somebody outbid me in the last two minutes of an auction.
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Here, it looks as though investors could absorb the extra tax bill and still outbid their rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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They just outbid us and that was a disappointment.
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I was outbid on everything but the filters, which I'd only really bid on to reduce postage from the seller.
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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
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If anyone outbids me in the next hour I'm going to unleash my fists of fury.
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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
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It is unfortunate that your resources, in the recent markets, have become so limited, or you might have outbidden me," said the Lady Florence.
Fighting Slave Of Gor
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It seems the deep-pocketed lady has taken to spending every waking hour outbidding anyone who dares cross her path.
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I didn't know all the tricks, and was outbid in the closing minute in a tactic known as ‘sniping’.
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Sir William Hamilton, he obtained a chance to take impressions of rare cameos from Italy and Pompeii; later the Duke of Portland, who you may recall outbid him at the sale of the world-famed Portland Vase, allowed him to copy it.
The Story of Porcelain
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‘We looked for more than a year and a half, but things were selling so fast and people kept outbidding us,’ he explains.
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He had hung there somewhere in the crowd waiting until all competitors but one should have been outbidden, and now he stepped forth to buy her for his own -- his slave!
The Sea-Hawk
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What's really going on here, I paranoically suspect, is this: either the Singapore port company which was outbid on this deal has been doing some lobbying in Washington in order to get itself back in the game at a lower -- and, by the way, much more reasonable -- price or some US private equity group is aiming to get the US ports carved out and handed to them.
Good News on UAE Port Deal
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The Museum has antagonised rivals by outbidding them for the world's greatest art treasures.
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To outbid another player, you must bid a higher number.
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Will James outbid hardbitten collectors in his quest for a Triang train at auction?
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When Phillips heard that Johnson had outbidden him, he described the offer as 'monstrous,' and that it was
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends
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Again and again I was frustratingly outbid, then finally I sunk one.
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Each has been trying to outbid the rest in an attempt to gain market share and so exploit economies of scale.
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No one can outbid you after the sale and the vendor is equally legally bound to complete the sale on the day and under the terms stipulated in the contract.
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I have long outbidden folly with folly, pride with pride, scorn with scorn, insolence with insolence, and have outlived many vanities with many more.
Bleak House
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The program helps maintain price stability whereby government offers a fixed wage that does not "outbid" the private sector, but simply creates a stabilizing floor and thereby prevents deflation.
Marshall Auerback: Time to Try Government as Employer of Last Resort
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I bought it at an auction and outbid a man who looked like Santa Claus.
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Now he tries to outbid us with claims about the number of civil servants he's going to sack.
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Quite often, these bids are used to outbid other contracts, such as solo 6, vingel 8 and tringel 9.
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Unconfirmed reports suggested that he had created many enemies as he was able to outbid his opponents for many government projects.
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And now Tsamanni not only found himself outbidden, but he had reached the outrageous limit appointed by Asad.
The Sea-Hawk
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He would let himself be outbidden where Keith would have carried all before him by a superb if reckless persistence.
The Divine Fire
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But it seems that she caught thy fancy, and the fool suffered himself to be outbidden.
The Sea-Hawk
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The Fox News reporter claims that AT&T simply "outbid" other carriers by agreeing to the $30 unlimited and $15 250MB data plans.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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So long as the public will pay for gross personalities, obscenity, and slang, decent journals will be outbidden in the market.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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The retail group outbid all three competitors for space in the shopping centre.
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They are outbidding anyone who wants to buy a pharmacy.
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Mandru's agent had been outbid, however, and he'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed.
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I could hardly believe it when I was outbid by so much.
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My main complaint is the “re-sellers” … I tried to get a few used electronic items only to get outbid by some guy who puts the same item up for auction the next week at a higher “minimum bid” or “buy now price”.
Bits Forum: Do You Still Shop at eBay? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Do you suppose it has ever occurred to any of these morons that I never intended to buy this POS company, and was only dangling big numbers out there so that I could bump up the price that Red Hat would have to pay when its hair-trigger CEO got all huffy and rushed in to "outbid" me?
Archive 2006-12-01
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It got worse when, attempting to summon a waiter for more wine, I mistakenly outbid everyone in the raffle for a snooker cue signed by innumerable world champions.
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Using the huge resources at their disposal to outbid potential rivals for property is another favoured technique, he argues.
Times, Sunday Times
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It did miss out on buying some bigger retail centres snapped up by rivals but being outbid is usually no disgrace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here, it looks as though investors could absorb the extra tax bill and still outbid their rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each new capital seemed to be eager to slightly outbid the previous one.
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The Museum has antagonised rivals by outbidding them for the world's greatest art treasures.
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It did miss out on buying some bigger retail centres snapped up by rivals but being outbid is usually no disgrace.
Times, Sunday Times
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He rose to scrutinize her closely, and must have been satisfied, for the price he offered was a good one, and he offered it with contemptuous assurance that he would not be outbidden.
The Sea-Hawk
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The retail group outbid all three competitors for space in the shopping centre.
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The other bidder thought himself to be clever and waited with his bid until eight seconds before the end of auction and obviously did not have the time to place another bid when he saw that he was still outbid.
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He acted on a gut feeling and stepped in to pay £5 for the dish, outbidding a woman who was trying to haggle the stallholder down to £1.
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I was ultimately outbid, which is perhaps just as well, inasmuch as I couldn’t really connect it up properly: my DVD player is connected up via S-Video and while there’s a composite input to spare, there’s no extra audio input to be had.
Dustbury.com » Way back there in 16:9
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Considering the monies at stake, Goa's famed five star facility, the Fort Aguada resort, could well be called Fort Knox for a day with millions of dollars at stake as film stars and industrialists outbid each other at the Indian Premier League's (IPL) second players auction here Friday.
India eNews
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They bought it unexpectedly by outbidding me at auction a few months ago, saying that as they live opposite it, they wanted to ensure my rival at the auction didn't get it.
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One of these allowed a security firm to win contracts by outbidding its rivals, courtesy of its lower labour costs.
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And as few bidders can be at their computers 24/7, those infuriating 'outbid' notifications soon start adding up.
Archive 2008-03-01
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She even went for one little black mare with a bay foal at her side, but was finally outbid at $6,000.
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It did miss out on buying some bigger retail centres snapped up by rivals but being outbid is usually no disgrace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Using the huge resources at their disposal to outbid potential rivals for property is another favoured technique, he argues.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the one hand did he permit himself to be outbidden his master might visit upon him his disappointment.
The Sea-Hawk
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His livestock specialist, whom he had filched from the Federal Government, in England outbid the Rothschilds’
The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London
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Between that and the vendor signing the contract, there were two other buyers who tried to outbid me.
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His livestock specialist, whom he had filched from the Federal Government, in England outbid the Rothschilds’ Shire farm for Hillcrest Chieftain, quickly to be known as Forrest’s
CHAPTER VI
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Here, it looks as though investors could absorb the extra tax bill and still outbid their rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
