outstrips in English
Even 10 years ago girls were outstripping boys when it came to winning a university place.
Use "outstrips" in a sentence
1. 4 The demand for firewood now far outstrips supply.
2. The demand for firewood now far outstrips supply.
3. When the particular outstrips the general, we are faced with an incongruity.
4. Slaughter on the highways often far outstrips that on the battlefield.
5. In practice demand invariably outstrips supply, obliging librarians to make decisions upon priorities.
6. 12 Cahoot's new interest range outstrips its online banking rival, Intelligent Finance, the Halifax's Internet bank.
7. If the demand for energy outstrips the supply, we use up the fat and become slimmer.
8. 28 The value of the investments and exports it backs far outstrips Britain's annual aid budget.
9. Their ingenious gyroscopes give flies a degree of aerial maneuverability that outstrips that of any other family of flying insects.
10. 25 Where nutrients are plentiful, productivity is high, production far outstrips decomposition, and organic sediments accumulate on the lake beds.
11. Where nutrients are plentiful, productivity is high, production far outstrips decomposition, and organic sediments accumulate on the lake beds.
12. 27 Our technical ability to make things and to pollute now far outstrips our ability to understand the processes we have unleashed.
13. Although Affect may be more common as a verb, the use of effect as a noun far outstrips that of Affect. An effect is "a change that results when something is done or happens," or "a particular feeling or mood created by something." But suppose it hadn't worked out