How to Use outgun in a Sentence

outgun

verb
  • But this time Goff gets himself on track just enough to outgun a sputtering Bears offense.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Only this time, mainstream lenders are set to outgun private credit providers, if stock prices and short-selling bets are anything to go by.
    — Sinead Cruise, Bloomberg, 7 Jan. 2026
  • This is Cupertino’s attempt to prove a tablet can replace and outgun your laptop.
    — David Pierce, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2015
  • The Seeker doesn’t pass the test by trying to outgun Apple or Samsung on hardware.
    — Hadley Stern, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Union members and their relatives outgun parent groups to control local school board elections, and unions dominate statewide curriculum choices.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This resulted in Labour and the Conservatives attempting to outgun each other with tough legislation and spending pledges.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • The new vehicle is built with a more capable, larger chassis, designed as an initial step toward building a next-generation cannon able to outgun existing Russian weapons.
    — Kris Osborn, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2018
  • To win favor with Beijing, local officials have tried to outgun one another with newfangled latrines, many equipped with flat-screen televisions, Wi-Fi and facial-recognition toilet paper dispensers.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, The Seattle Times, 6 Nov. 2018
  • Despite the threat, an unprompted direct attack is extremely unlikely because the United States vastly outguns Pyongyang, which values the continuation of its dictatorship above all else.
    — Hyung-Jin Kim, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The Russians are expected to continue to outgun the Ukrainian military, launching tens of thousands of rounds of artillery each day in addition to salvos of missiles and other munitions, according to Western intelligence assessments.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The Russians are expected to continue to outgun the Ukrainian military, launching tens of thousands of rounds of artillery each day in addition to salvos of missiles and other munitions, according to Western intelligence assessments.
    — Dan Lamothe and Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Competing in by far the highest spending division in baseball against AL East teams like the Yankees, Blue Jays and Red Sox, Rubenstein realizes that his franchise cannot currently generate the revenue needed to outgun those clubs in the long run.
    — Paul Bledsoe, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026

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