How to Use outshine in a Sentence

outshine

verb
  • She outshines all the other actors in the film.
  • In that area, his peers were outshining him.
    — Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
  • These ones do — and some even outshine the movies that inspired them.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026
  • There isn’t a trophy known to the human race that can outshine that.
    — Vulture, 27 June 2023
  • These products outshine the rest.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
  • In other words, the moon is not a threat to outshine any of the three planets.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 8 June 2026
  • Both will need to outshine the deeper ends of the wideout depth chart to stick around.
    — Mike Kaye may 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2026
  • That smile could outshine the studio's gleam, the spark of resilience, hope and dream.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The women in the book outshine the men, and the men seem unable to survive them.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2022
  • At what point do those heroes get outshined by the celebrities making them over?
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2019
  • Will gold outshine Bitcoin in the long term - or the reverse?
    — Roger Huang, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • More cynically, who would want to give a deputy the chance to outshine the boss?
    — The Economist, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Yet none of them may be able to outshine Sánchez’s impressive rock.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2023
  • What has been done to Shedeur will outshine everything else in this draft.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • What has been done to Shedeur will outshine everything else in this draft.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • What has been done to Shedeur will outshine everything else in this draft.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • What has been done to Shedeur will outshine everything else in this draft.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The stars often outshine their planets, which tend to be a little too close to their stars.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 June 2025
  • The contrasting white and blue blooms won't be outshined in this setting.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 16 June 2023
  • Flannery — who again outshined Spicer during the dance-off — got the boot this time.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The list of ways in which mules outshine horses is so long as to be embarrassing.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In Denmark the culture is more to not try to outshine your neighbor too much.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Kick off the new year by browsing a sale that might just outshine Black Friday.
    — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
  • In doing so, he’s seen as adding enough to a song to make his presence felt, but not so much as to outshine the main artist.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 15 June 2024
  • La Salle arguably outshines Clooney as well with his more abrasive brand of charm.
    — John Russell, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Seager’s home run even outshined one from Shohei Ohtani, who went deep in the first inning.
    — Doug Padilla, Orange County Register, 12 June 2024
  • To take your wash of bronzer up a notch, reach for pots of color bright enough to outshine even the most radiant rays.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 2 July 2018
  • But somehow Perry and Bloom managed to outshine the sun in this pic.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 24 June 2019
  • The benefits outshine those of any ab workout routine.
    — Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The Midwest rap scenes continue to outshine the rest of the country.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2022

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