What is "outstripped"

Usage examples of "outstripped".

But the spirit of a martial people outstripped the timid counsels of the court: two brothers, Lothaire and Buccelin, ^48 the dukes of the Alemanni, stood forth as the leaders of the Italian war.

He resembled his father in face and outstripped him in size by half a foot but with undeveloped breadth.

Jerhattan Transport Complex had grown but not outstripped the available area.

Added to the unfamiliar smells of the aircraft and the absence of food and water, the crowding caused nothing short of a simian riot, and since the issue could not be resolved by combat, all that resulted was a collective screech of rage from hundreds of individuals which far outstripped the sound of the JT-8 engines driving the aircraft east over the Indian Ocean.

The same principle extended to oncology, where the funding for breast cancer, which attacked roughly one woman in ten, far outstripped research in prostate cancer, which afflicted roughly half of the male population.

He knew when to be rough and cruel and when to be loving and gentle, but in other ways he outstripped his father.

Shasa had paid hundreds of pounds for his training by the finest instructors in Africa, and all of them had at last admitted that Sean was a natural fighter and that the pupil in each case outstripped the master.

Then he insisted on telephoning this important copy through to a long-suffering sub at the newspaper offices, and the telephone charges far outstripped his five-guinea salary.

He had a special fondness for valuable documents— both genuine and contrived—and he possessed a knowledge of elven ways that far outstripped the understanding of most humans.

She'd often sensed that the young male's instincts for self-preservation far outstripped his loyalty to his house.