outstrip

How To Use outstrip In A Sentence

• Since 1975, landmines have killed over a million people, far outstripping the deaths caused by those well-publicized bugaboos, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
• The pace things were going meant that liquidity demands would have outstripped liquidity resources. Times, Sunday Times
• Britain is facing a bungalow crisis as the demand for single-storey homes outstrips supply. Times, Sunday Times
• Cahoot's new interest range outstrips its online banking rival, Intelligent Finance, the Halifax's Internet bank.
• This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
• With worldwide demand for nuclear skills far outstripping supply, that niche should become steadily more valuable. Times, Sunday Times
• Will the supply of new bonds outstrip demand? Times, Sunday Times
• In education, girls, who were once considered less worthy of a decent education, now outstrip their male counterparts at almost every stage.
• Demand outstrips supply and in 1934 he goes to the toymakers Parker Brothers who turn him down on the grounds that it contains 52 ‘fundamental errors’.
• To be clear, women, regardless of race, are outstripping men in college enrollment and graduation.