How to Use outsell in a Sentence

outsell

verb
  • We've been outselling our competitors for the past five years.
  • Diet sodas are now beginning to outsell regular sodas in the supermarkets.
  • Or your spicy sauce flavors outsold the mild ones three to one.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Spare will need to outsell both Obamas to break a record, though.
    — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Hop outsold that bestseller nearly three and a half times over.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Electric heat pumps outsold gas furnaces for the first time last year.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Swift's album outsold Wallen's by more than six and a half times over.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • Both of its first two beers became top sellers, outselling all of the other crafts on tap at the bar.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 9 May 2017
  • Sheeran is the first to both outgross and outsell the competition two years in a row.
    — Eric Frankenberg, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Bloomberg reports new iPhones are outselling last year’s model by 14%.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The league sold apparel with their own logo on it, and even that stuff outsold the Wizards.
    — Sam McDowell, kansascity, 26 May 2018
  • At Arnold’s bakery, sweet potato tends to outsell pumpkin.
    — Sophie Bates, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Tesla kicked open the doors to electric cars, but GM and Ford outsell them.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • This spring, plug-in electric vehicles outsold gas and diesel cars for the first time in Norway.
    — Brett Berk, WIRED, 6 July 2019
  • Four years later, the brand was outselling Ford and Cadillac, combined.
    — Erin Marquis / Jalopnik, Quartz, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Hybrids, at the moment, are outselling electrics, all to the good since the infrastructure for electrics still has a few bugs.
    — Josh Max, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Single malts get all the love, but the fact is that blended scotch is the people’s champ, outselling the latter by a wide margin.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Still, the Lexus outsold all but the XT4 last year and by a margin of more than three to one.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2020
  • And domestic brands are poised to outsell foreign brands in the Chinese market for the first time this year.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The single quickly outsold Thompson’s and pushed Wells to the top of the country charts.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • One report last week said that even Apple’s iPhone 7 is outselling its iPhone 8.
    — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
  • These doodads may seem quaint now, but the LS400 stood out and quickly outsold many rivals.
    — Daniel Miller, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
  • And Renault will show the sixth generation of the Clio hatch, which has been outselling the Golf all year, too.
    — Michael Taylor, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • For the first time since 1987, vinyl albums outsold CDs by units in the US.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, mid-range phones like the Galaxy A53 usually outsell the flagships.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The Lightning is an electric version of a truck that has outsold all others for more than 45 years in the US.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 9 June 2023
  • Musk has predicted that the Model Y will outsell the S, X and 3 combined.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2020
  • By the end of the 19th century, the Belgians were outselling the British in African markets.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Sales of the Cybertruck were strong enough in the second quarter to outsell the F-150 Lightning.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
  • In just two years, this svelte four-door electric sport sedan has already begun to outsell the vaunted Porsche 911, the iconic heart and soul of the brand.
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2021

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