How to Use outspend in a Sentence

outspend

verb
Definition of outspendnext
  • He has outspent the other candidates in the election by millions of dollars.
  • Then some new owners will emerge and try to outspend their peers.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In Nevada, Democrats are set to outspend Trump in the closing days by more than 3-to-1.
    — Brian Slodysko, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Any team that outspends their pool by 0 to 5 percent would have to pay a 75% take over the overage.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 25 July 2023
  • Teams like the Red Sox and Dodgers routinely outspend them.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Biden continues to outspend Trump on the airwaves in the final stretch of the campaign.
    — Ruth Fremson, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Shale drillers are outspending the world with $84 billion spree.
    — Lorcan Roche Kelly, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017
  • Trump is booked to outspend Bloomberg in Columbus in the final week, but will be behind in Cincinnati.
    — cleveland, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Blanchard has used that money to outspend Ivey by more than $2 million as of March 31.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Though Lasry was able to greatly outspend the rest of the field, his two top rivals took in more in donations.
    — Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2022
  • The Billings Gazette notes how much Republicans are outspending Democrats in the race.
    — NBC News, 24 May 2017
  • Biden continues to outspend the president on TV ads, a trend that's been playing out since the end of July.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Pull it up, yes, but not by outspending the ULCC cost advantage.
    — Justin Bachman, Bloomberg.com, 31 July 2017
  • But to paraphase Thomas Sowell, there is no amount of money that government cannot outspend!
    — Andrés Garcia, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • Jones also had money on his side, outspending Moore by a 2:1 margin to win the race by 1.6 percentage points.
    — Kim Chandler, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Keep in mind that in Politico’s accounting, Strange lost despite outspending Moore 5 to 1 on ads.
    — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Netflix clearly feels the need to outspend its competitors to continue adding subscribers around the world.
    — Fortune, 18 July 2017
  • With less than $3,000 raised for his campaign, Rodriguez’s opponents are likely to far outspend him.
    — Annie Martin, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • When outspending the pool by more than 5 percent, future draft picks are surrendered.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2018
  • But Whitman did outspend once-and-future governor Jerry Brown six-to-one.
    — John C Abell, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2010
  • This is the longest stretch in team history without a World Series appearance — and much of it has come with the Dodgers outspending all rivals.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Jones has dominated the airwaves, outspending Moore on TV ads by roughly a ten-to-one margin.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Dec. 2017
  • America outspends the rest of the world on military space capabilities by a ratio of three to one.
    — The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • Their war chest has permitted Friedman to outspend his mistakes.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Before then, the Flyers could and did outspend other teams to acquire quality players; there was nothing to stop them.
    — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • As is typical in these races, political groups were on track to outspend the candidates.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The Sox won the World Series with a bulldozer approach last season, outspending every team to build a near-perfect roster.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • But the state is solidly Democratic, and Cuomo is expected to far outspend Molinaro, according to the Times.
    — Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue, 14 Sep. 2018
  • Browning said Farley has outraised Garcia and is prepared to outspend him and win the August primary.
    — Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 27 June 2018
  • Those results may be different now after both Democrats aired a barrage of ads across the state, with Northam outspending Perriello.
    — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 12 June 2017

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