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Definition of Outdistancing
1. outdistance [v] - See also: outdistance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdistancing
Literary usage of Outdistancing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. White Fang by Jack London (1906)
"It was vain to think of One Ear so outdistancing his pursuers as to be able to
cut across their circle in advance of them and to regain the sled. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"... dealers: The buyer for one of the largest jobbing houses wrote us it was their
best seller, "outdistancing its nearest competitor by about 40 per cent. ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... should be admired and imitated in Shakespeare, Germany was rapidly outdistancing
France as the real leader of continental appreciation of Shakespeare. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Three great fields have opened up in the Rockies, outdistancing the great Lake
deposits. In 1913 the Arizona production was ..."
5. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1906)
"... being about 25 years of Age (& the Duke's about 45), got it with ease,
outdistancing the Duke's near half a Mile. They both ran naked, there being not ..."
6. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"... and twisting the simple story into impossible phantasmagoria, far outdistancing
the poetical but not grotesque imagery of the Arabian Nights. ..."
7. The British Journal of Psychology by British Psychological Society (1913)
"Whereas comedy tends to under- distance, melodrama suffers from outdistancing.
For a cultivated audience its overcharged idealism, the crude opposition of ..."
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