How to Use pull ahead in a Sentence

pull ahead

verb
  • Louisville pulled ahead in the top of the second.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2026
  • Home Depot is then expected to start to pull ahead.
    — Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 22 May 2026
  • Korda pulled ahead with a 9-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole.
    — ABC News, 8 June 2026
  • Miami led from start to finish, pulling ahead by as many as 26 points.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The workers pulling ahead are the ones pouring concrete for the data centers.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • But now progressive Nithya Raman is pulling ahead.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 8 June 2026
  • Russell, his teammate, pulled ahead of Antonelli at the start and challenged for the lead.
    — Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The Raptors ended up pulling ahead by as many as 25 points in the final minutes.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The Lancers erased 3-point deficits midway through both the second and third sets with 6-1 runs to pull ahead.
    — Justin Vigil Zuniga, Daily News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • After Bregman’s home run, the Cubs came inches away from pulling ahead in the same inning.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The organizations that will pull ahead aren't waiting for a better tool.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The company that slows down long enough to actually listen to users is going to be the one that pulls ahead.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That’s when the Royals pulled ahead and evened the series ahead of Sunday’s finale.
    — Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Gunther pulled ahead with a chop on Cody in midair as Rhodes tried a Cody Cutter.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Now, Drake has pulled ahead of the British singer-songwriter, who descends slightly to tenth place.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Miami held tight to its slim lead until midway through the second half, when the Tigers ran off eight straight points to pull ahead.
    — ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The firms pulling ahead are not just embedding quality earlier.
    — Manish Gupta, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Organizations that treat data meaning as a first-class concern are pulling ahead.
    — Emma McGrattan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • While a lot can happen between now and June, early polls show Schlossberg and Bores pulling ahead of the pack.
    — Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The companies pulling ahead didn’t hand AI to an innovation team and wait for a report.
    — Dennis Woodside, Fortune, 17 May 2026
  • Plus, Decodo pulls ahead in every metric, giving it the better proxy network of the two.
    — Justyn Newman, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
  • After a wild ninth inning in which neither closer could hold the lead, Toronto pulled ahead for good in the 10th.
    — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The companies that pull ahead won’t simply make employees more productive.
    — Larry English, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Inter Miami was in full control at the start of the match, scoring the first three goals to pull ahead 3-0 in the first half.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 3 May 2026
  • Which frontier model wins, which lab pulls ahead, which assistant the market finally settles on, none of it is easy to predict.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Later, in the third, his screen helped Travis Sanheim get one past Stuart Skinner to pull ahead.
    — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Neither seemed to pull ahead in this measuring opportunity, and Sumrall doesn’t want the lights to get too bright for them.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The firms pulling ahead today are not necessarily the ones talking most about innovation.
    — Deepa Tailor, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • After the Heat pulled ahead by eight points in the first few minutes of the game, the Raptors took control of the contest and never let go.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Engineering majors more broadly continue to pull ahead of other fields.
    — Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026

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