shoot ahead of
Example Sentences
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When reporters asked Kerry and Zarif about Yemen during a brief photo shoot ahead of the talks, both men declined to answer.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2015
Sir Harry then ordered the helm to be put hard a-port, which caused the ship to shoot ahead of the Inflexible.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
Nancy tried to shoot ahead of her two classmates again.
From A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall by Amy Bell Marlowe
It is well known that the largest fishes will, with the greatest ease, overtake a ship in full sail, play round it without effort, and shoot ahead of it at pleasure.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
You'll shoot ahead of all your old friends, my boy, some day.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
