How to Use outnumber in a Sentence

outnumber

verb
Definition of outnumbernext
  • But most of the time, almost all the time, I’m outnumbered.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The people who lived in Rafah before the war are outnumbered four to one by the displaced.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • In most instances, the staff outnumber the leaders 15 to one.
    — Randy Shattuck, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • They were outnumbered for most of the day by journalists.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • And, as in so many fields, at first the skeptics vastly outnumbered the early-adopters.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • For the first time since the AfD’s rise over the last 10 years, supporters in Berlin outnumbered counterprotesters.
    — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Wind turbines outnumbered oil structures by the end of 2020.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That’s kind of a big deal in a place where Catholics alone once outnumbered evangelicals by about 2 to 1.
    — The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Normally, all hair goes through these stages at random and the growing hairs on the rest of the head outnumber the hairs that fall out.
    — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The nice stories, however, were outnumbered by the grim ones.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Shawn Johnson East and her husband are about to be outnumbered.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Nonproducing wells that haven’t been plugged now outnumber active wells in the gulf, the study says.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • So, too, does giving a voice to voters, even if they’re outnumbered.
    — Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024
  • The flies far outnumbered the two live and one dead roaches, although that one dead roach did mar a clean cutting board.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • On that battlefield, the U.S. Army’s artillery pieces would be outnumbered by the Russians’ by a ratio of at least two to one.
    — Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But at a meeting in early February, on the second floor of city hall, the alders were outnumbered.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Cattle far outnumber wild horses on the range and compete for the same resources.
    — Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 June 2022
  • Police have been besieged and outnumbered to combat the armed gangs.
    — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • In a region where stone shrines outnumber churches by the hundred, St. George's feels like a rare relic.
    — Melanie Hamilton, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The stores are far outnumbered by their unlicensed competitors, more than 1,500 of which have set up shop in New York City alone.
    — Ashley Southall, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
  • And in both states, only-Trump voters are outnumbered by the third of the electorate who aren't considering him at all.
    — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • They are outnumbered by men 26 to 1 in the S&P leadership ranks, a gap five times wider than the disparity for white women.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In the future, the elderly could outnumber the young, leaving not enough workers to pay taxes and fill jobs.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Golf carts and mopeds seem to outnumber cars; zipping through the streets with coolers bungeed to the back is integral to life in the Conch Republic.
    — Erinne Magee, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Grimes had told his family so much about him and theirs is the kind of home where animals outnumber people.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The few people who choose to live there are vastly outnumbered by sheep, rabbits and the whales and dolphins that frolic in the cobalt seas surrounding the rocky coast line.
    — Kate Duffy, Fortune Europe, 24 May 2024
  • There have been - and there will be - many days and nights when Yankees fans badly outnumber Orioles rooters here.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Already, on some Paris boulevards, bikes outnumber cars at peak times.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Whilst its not clear exactly what proportion of these watches were made in white gold, they were definitely outnumbered heavily by the yellow gold production.
    — Thomas Wojtowicz, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • But bringing dialysis to an area where sheep overwhelmingly outnumbered people wasn’t an easy proposal.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024

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