verb
definition
To outrun or leave behind.
example
We quickly outstripped the amateur runners.
definition
To exceed, excel or surpass.
example
This year's production has already outstripped last year's.
Examples of outstrip in a Sentence
These sums can far outstrip the amount of damages awarded.
Competition for decreasing oil reserves from the expanding economies of Asia means that demand will soon outstrip supply.
Is there some point where our technological prowess will outstrip our wisdom thus making a disaster inevitable?
She was famed for her running, and would only consent to marry a suitor who could outstrip her in a race, the consequence of failure being death.
Canada is likely to outstrip the United States in the trade of fish and blubber oils, and in tie near future Japan bids fair to become a very serious competitor in the supply of these oils.
In 407 he was slain in an attempt to enter the city, and with him was wounded one who was presently to outstrip both rivals.
The tendency observable in many of the austerities and miracles attributed to St Catherine to outstrip those of other saints, particularly Francis, is especially remarkable in this marvel of the stigmata, and so acute became the rivalry between the two orders that Pope Sixtus IV., himself a Franciscan, issued a decree asserting that St Francis had an exclusive monopoly of this particular wonder, and making it a censurable offence to represent St Catherine receiving the stigmata.
His father, the god Ares-Hippius, gave him winged horses swift as the wind, and Oenomaiis promised his daughter to the man who could outstrip him in the chariot race, hoping thus to prevent her marriage altogether.
At the same time, new hairs begin to develop and to grow rapidly, and soon outstrip the hairs of the autumn pile.