How to Use outdraw in a Sentence

outdraw

verb
  • Or if the Padres, for the third time in five years, outdraw everyone but the Dodgers.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • And on Saturday night, the minor-league soccer team outdrew them.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 7 May 2018
  • The Tigers were the worst team in baseball last year and still handily outdrew the Red Wings.
    — Ted Berg, For The Win, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The hockey team, by far the worst in the NHL, still is outdrawing the Nuggets.
    — Terry Frei, The Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2017
  • Booking your event at a private club always outdraws a public course, since golfers will get to play a course that’s otherwise out of reach.
    — Southland Golf, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2017
  • At some point this summer, the B’s could outdraw the A’s on a day when both teams are playing in Oakland.
    — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
  • Thousands were turned away at the door, as the demand significantly outdrew the supply.
    — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • In 2025, the Padres outdrew every team in the majors except the Dodgers.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Low-cost index funds continue to outdraw stock- and bond-picking strategies, adding to the pressure on managers’ profit margins.
    — Justin Baer, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • That was just one of many areas where CU outdrew Colorado State in athletic revenue.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • For the first time since 1956, Republicans outdrew Democrats.
    — Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The Mets’ attendance is rising, and while the Yankees still outdraw them, their attendance is falling.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
  • The women’s March Madness final outdrew the men’s final match by millions of TV fans.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2024
  • In the other version, Cora grabbed Richardson by the collar, and when Richardson reached for his weapon, Cora outdrew him and killed him.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • With 18-to-49 viewers, Kimmel was tops, and Fallon in repeats outdrew new Colbert episodes.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 June 2018
  • Ratings suggest that Friday nights and late starts can outdraw Saturday afternoons, when viewers have a variety of choices.
    — David Wharton, latimes.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The American League outdrew the National League by the end of the 1902 season.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2018
  • For much of the rest of the ’60 and well into the ‘70s, SDSU would outdraw the professional football team in town.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • March Madness continues to dominate attention, but the sport struggles to break through from April to February, and last year, the women’s final outdrew the dudes.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Recollect how the narcissist in chief spent his early days in the White House defending the laughable claim that his inauguration had outdrawn Obama’s.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Still, the fact that teams from Oklahoma City and San Antonio outdrew a New York team making a historic Finals run is telling.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
  • On the series side of Netflix’s ledger, season two of Wednesday outdrew the end of Stranger Things in the second half of the year — mostly by virtue of having had a 16-week head start.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The silent film star was one of the most popular screen comedians in the 1920s, outdrawing even Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • This is especially notable as the performance outdrew the football game itself, which had an average of 126 million viewers, according to Fox Sports.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Those in the industry countered with their knight, outdrawing the other group 5-to-1 before a monthly meeting of the California Horse Racing Board.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019
  • As the smallest school in the Big 12, no one expects its basketball team to outdraw conference opponents such as Kansas, BYU or Arizona.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
  • In Shakespeare’s time, the Children of the Chapel, a company made up entirely of boys, competed fiercely with the playwright’s company, the King’s Men, and often outdrew them.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Victoria Gardens, an expansive outdoor shopping center in Rancho Cucamonga, has sold for $530 million as open-air malls continue to outdraw conventional indoor centers.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Since the pandemic, the Padres have not ranked lower than fifth in attendance and in 2025 outdrew every team in the majors outside the Los Angeles Dodgers with a franchise-record 3,437,201 fans at Petco Park.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026

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