How to Use outsell in a Sentence

outsell

verb
Definition of outsellnext
  • We've been outselling our competitors for the past five years.
  • Diet sodas are now beginning to outsell regular sodas in the supermarkets.
  • The takeover was complete: Light trucks outsold cars for the first time in 2002.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 3 May 2024
  • Still, the Lexus outsold all but the XT4 last year and by a margin of more than three to one.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2020
  • For the first time since 1987, vinyl albums outsold CDs by units in the US.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Spare will need to outsell both Obamas to break a record, though.
    — Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • By the end of the 19th century, the Belgians were outselling the British in African markets.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Swift's album outsold Wallen's by more than six and a half times over.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • The single quickly outsold Thompson’s and pushed Wells to the top of the country charts.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Tesla kicked open the doors to electric cars, but GM and Ford outsell them.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Compact discs started to outsell vinyl in the late ‘80s.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • This year, for the first time since…I was in college…vinyl may outsell compact discs.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
  • At the midway mark in the chart cycle, Capaldi’s LP was outselling the rest of the top 20 combined.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 May 2023
  • Electric heat pumps outsold gas furnaces for the first time last year.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The Lightning is an electric version of a truck that has outsold all others for more than 45 years in the US.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 9 June 2023
  • The manual gearbox is an endangered species at this point, outsold by EVs in the U.S. since the end of the last decade.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The league sold apparel with their own logo on it, and even that stuff outsold the Wizards.
    — Sam McDowell, kansascity, 26 May 2018
  • Sheeran is the first to both outgross and outsell the competition two years in a row.
    — Eric Frankenberg, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Musk has predicted that the Model Y will outsell the S, X and 3 combined.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2020
  • The old classic outsells the rest of the field about 8 to 1, Longman & Eagle’s bar manager, Jake Dean, said.
    — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
  • These doodads may seem quaint now, but the LS400 stood out and quickly outsold many rivals.
    — Daniel Miller, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
  • And domestic brands are poised to outsell foreign brands in the Chinese market for the first time this year.
    — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The fact that the Taycan could outsell the 911 in a record-setting year shows just how quickly and ardently the EV has been embraced.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2022
  • This spring, plug-in electric vehicles outsold gas and diesel cars for the first time in Norway.
    — Brett Berk, WIRED, 6 July 2019
  • Which is why in grocery stores salsa is outselling ketchup.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
  • In just two years, this svelte four-door electric sport sedan has already begun to outsell the vaunted Porsche 911, the iconic heart and soul of the brand.
    — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, mid-range phones like the Galaxy A53 usually outsell the flagships.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Reports from supply chain sources suggest that Apple expects the iPhone 13 to outsell the iPhone 12.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 17 Aug. 2021
  • But nobody expects the Pixel line of phones to ever outsell the iPhone, least of all Google leadership.
    — Nick Statt, The Verge, 23 Apr. 2018
  • And yet the crossover riff will almost certainly outsell the Hatch by thousands.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 May 2021

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