What is "outrace"

Usage examples of "outrace".

Was she trying to outrace him, hoping that once they gained her tent he would simply leave?

There was darkness beneath with infrequent lights, and dark skies above with scattered stars, and the plane could not quite outrace the turning earth so it could not catch the daylight.

You can fly them in any direction you want and you can outrace the wind!

This expressly decreed that nothing could outrace the speed of light and yet here were physicists insisting that, somehow, at the subatomic level, information could.

They watched the green image of the white dwarf fade and then suddenly flare up and become bright again as they outraced the light that had left it five centuries before.

It was gone in an instant, rushing toward Sun and Earth at a speed that outraced the flying radio message, leaving the ship of the Guard Patrol behind, and leaving the Pilot as he leaves our story.

He knew that word of his escape could have outraced him via dispatch riders on the Tangent, if those in Earthfast knew where to look.

If I have not outraced the winter to this latitude, I have at any rate survived it in the wilderness.

Most of the Skinks had dropped back, and three of the huge ones outraced their companions and had cut the distance between them to about thirty meters.

His mind was going and going, outracing the car, running on ahead of his thoughts, fibrillating like a bad heart until suddenly it stopped, dead still, conjectural operations ceased, and a clear bracing coldness descended through his overheated body in one long slow continuous wave.

Talann, and before Pallas could say another Talann whirled and sprinted across the deck of the barge sprang onto the pier and across it to the burning deck of the opposite, then curved for shore, outracing the flames.

The fact that Verdugo had risked a light within was indication that he thought he had outraced The Shadow.

His mind was going and going, outracing the car, running on ahead of his thoughts, fibrillating like a bad heart until suddenly it stopped, dead still, conjectural operations ceased, and a clear bracing coldness descended through his overheated body in one long slow continuous wave.

He knew that word of his escape could have outraced him via dispatch riders on the Tangent, if those in Earthfast knew where to look.

Talann, and before Pallas could say another Talann whirled and sprinted across the deck of the barge sprang onto the pier and across it to the burning deck of the opposite, then curved for shore, outracing the flames.