out-distance

Example Sentences

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He did, however, concede that the Japanese player was likely to out-distance him at the tee-off.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2017

Even if I started running, I couldn’t out-distance all of them.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

A wheel was turning in his head, so quickly, so quickly in this great heat that, unless he were quicker than it, it would out-distance him altogether.

From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary

They would never allow the enemy to out-distance us in so important a department.

From Simon Called Peter by Keable, Robert

Of their nature they out-distance the boundaries of parish and diocese, for they affect the Church as a whole.

From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by Daly, George Thomas