Outstripping
[aʊt'strɪpɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outstrip
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Examples
- I ran the same way, outstripping a good many, and soon came facing the wild sea. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The young are seldom in Elysium, for their desires, outstripping possibility, leave them as poor as a moneyless debtor. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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