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Example sentences for "outbid"

Lexicographically close words:
out; outa; outan; outang; outangs; outbidding; outboard; outbound; outbreak; outbreaking
  1. Flood tried to outbid Grattan by pushing the concessions won from England in the moment of her difficulty yet further, and by making use of the volunteers as a lever to enforce his demands.

  2. There were several circumstances that made it possible for a financial midget like myself to outbid the lions of the cloak-and-suit industry.

  3. But suppose his merchandise is really good, and I can outbid him.

  4. What is the good of bothering about Bankruptcy or Local Government when our real business is to outbid Chaplin and Co.

  5. The speculators, with paper of which the real value was much below par, could outbid settlers and cultivators who could only offer specie, or notes that were its equivalent.

  6. Martignon's bribe to Lebret, and so persuaded Auguste to outbid her.

  7. May not proportionately as large a Socialist party arise in Great Britain, especially as no political party can outbid the Socialists?

  8. He was the chamberlain of Domitian who had been outbid by Nehushta in the slave ring.

  9. I will presently define exactly what I mean by God and by Theism, and explain what theories I referred to when I spoke just now of attempts to fly beyond the one and to outbid the other.

  10. I dare say it may for an instant have perplexed some of you that I should speak of conceptions that aimed at going beyond God, and of attempts to fly above him or outbid him; so I will now explain exactly what I mean.

  11. To succeed, he knew that he must outbid the highest offers of his opponents.

  12. To divide the intellect of the country into hostile camps, each struggling to outwit or outbid the other, is not a promising, and may not be a permanent, method of conducting the affairs of a great country.

  13. He was the 'political Petruchio who had outbid them all.

  14. Marcus Livius Drusus was son of the man whom the Senate had put forward to outbid Caius Gracchus.

  15. When Drusus was afterwards set up to outbid Caius, he proposed that the vectigal should be remitted, and that the land that had been assigned might be sold by the occupier.

  16. It wouldn't be sporty of me to outbid you for your dead buddy's horse.

  17. If some one should run the price up beyond the limits of his purse, of course I want you to outbid that some one, but what I do not desire you to do is to run the price up on him yourself.

  18. Nobody in San Marcos County will bid against me, for I can outbid everybody and acquire the sheep without having to put up a cent of capital.

  19. No wonder this ex-soldier plans to outbid me for Panchito.

  20. He was thus able to remove the bad impression the King had received as to his foreign policy, and to outbid his rivals in the arrangements he proposed to make for the Civil List, a point very close to the King's heart.

  21. But, masking his more interested designs, Pisistratus outbid all competition in his seeming zeal for the public welfare.

  22. But the time had come when the demagogue was outbid by an aristocrat--when the movement he no longer headed left him behind, and the genius of an individual could no longer keep pace with the giant strides of an advancing people.

  23. England immediately outbid the Czar for their favour, by recognising the validity of their blockades of the Turkish fortresses, thus virtually acknowledging the existence of the Greek state.

  24. France now embarked in the cause, determined to outbid her allies, and sent an expedition to the Morea, under Marshal Maison, to drive out the troops of Ibrahim Pasha.

  25. Just this natural morality of self-surrender does He call the law of God; that supernatural morality which thinks to outbid this, He calls the commandment of men.

  26. But Wakem outbid us; he'd made up his mind to that.

  27. Philip moved heaven and earth to prevent his enlargement: he negotiated, he promised, he flattered, he threatened, he outbid his extravagant ransom.

  28. You outbid me half a dollar and then didn't have the half a dollar neither!

  29. It was the policy of the Senate to purchase popularity at almost any price, and the members were ready to outbid each other by the most extravagant offers, for the object of their ignoble competition.

  30. Livius Drusus, his colleague in the tribuneship, to outbid him by all sorts of extravagances for the prize of popularity.

  31. The landlord was satisfied that, if he wanted the team, he must outbid his competitor, and advanced his offer to thirteen hundred dollars.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outbid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bargain; bid; cheapen; dicker; haggle; huckster; negotiate