outstep

Example Sentences

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If you know your skill set, your interests, your needs and who you are, you won’t make too many mistakes—because you won’t outstep what you know how to do.

From Washington Post • May 22, 2015

It's my first time at the Oliviers, so I don't want to outstep my balance; I'm not going to wear magenta or neon and have you guys talking about me the next day.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2013

Jordan Turner-Hall decided that trying to outstep a rush defence was counter-productive and chipped into space for his fellow centre, George Lowe, to pick up ahead of Ojo and score.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2010

Michael Angelo's ideals belong to a nobler, stronger generation, as if he had had demigods in his mind, just as Schiller's poetical forms, in another manner, often outstep the measure of the ordinary mortal....

From Famous European Artists by Bolton, Sarah K.

His power is, in fact, supreme, though formally qualified by the assessorship of a senate, who, though entitled to advise, would outstep their bounds did they attempt to direct.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various