How can such facts be outweighed by the mere word of a girl who, as every one knows, is on anything rather than good terms with my mother, and who will leave no stone unturned to save her servant.
Computing his gains, he discovered with poignant consternation, that his losses far outweighed them.
It undoubtedly presented so many advantages for Jim, that these finallyoutweighed her scruples, and she agreed thereto with earnest thanks.
The man knew that his own comfort lay in secrecy, and his comfort outweighed his military conscience.
The interests of the aristocracyoutweighed the political considerations in our favour.
The lack of space, of light, and of air outweighed all considerations of charm and originality; the upper staircase alone would have ruined any flat for Mr. Prohack.
It was probably this sixth item that outweighedany of the others in Mr. Prohack's favourable estimate of the financier.
What the young mistress of her husband could seek her for, or want of her, seemed to her so odd that for the moment the strangeness of the supplication outweighed her pitiless scorn of the suppliant.
Psychological analysis far outweighed with her all personal emotions.
When she could think coherently, and understand clearly, her shame at the beggar's position to which she had sunk was shared and outweighed by her passionate gratitude to her deliverer.
There had been a greatness in his loyalty and in his sacrifice to its demands which outweighed the clumsiness of his passion and the grotesqueness of his ignorance.
Her first impulse was to give the instant refusal for which her women looked; but her next was to wait, to hesitate: perhaps to consent; the strangeness of such a visit outweighed with her its insolence and intrusion.
The courage of these whites, however, was so outweighed by their caution that Nat and his fellows were able to continue their marauding course in a new direction, gradually swelling their numbers to forty again.
He gently lamented the massacre and sufferings involved, but thought them infinitely outweighed by the salvation of souls.
He should, if necessary, have even waited till the next day before coming up to the camp, but his anxiety to see the knife safe in the Moscio's possession had outweighed everything else.
The upper ranks, almost entirely attached to the Medicean interest, felt deeply the loss of the man whose firm and practised hand had guided the helm for so long, and whose vices had been outweighed by his brilliant qualities.
He was not lacking in cultivation and interest in learning, but his bad qualities outweighed his good ones.
But the symboloutweighed these objections of good sense.
Jay, to whose mind the interests of the seaboard shipowners and producers far outweighed the desires of the few settlers of the interior waters, was willing to make the agreement.
Great Britain outweighed the colonies in population by three or four to one, and in every element of military strength to a much greater degree.
Advantages of its study outweighed by disadvantage.
He objected to the existing stagnation, believing that there was no duty to the nobles that outweighed the duty to France.
The terms in which she uttered her belief outweighed the advice of the sober Genevese.
With this sword hanging over him, with this rope round his neck, in the autumn and winter of 1790, Mirabeau rose to an ascendancy in which he outweighed all parties.
It was in his power to bestow the highest happiness which earth can give; after all, his love outweighed everything that she must sacrifice for it.
But as yet these joys of love far, far outweighed the suffering which it caused.
Under these circumstances, Tullus was unwilling to let him speak, for he was a brilliant orator, and his former services far outweighed his last offence.
His unchangeable sweet temper and gentle judgment of mankind, his entire lack of vanity and the very real ability that was concealed under his elusive personality outweighed the exasperation his irresponsibility and indolence sometimes awoke.
With no one else in the world could she have owned so much, and the keen pleasure of exercising her right to open dealing with him, outweighed the humiliation of her avowal.
The sentinels, too, their dread of official punishment outweighed by the fear of death or maiming from the powerful bombs, had deserted their posts, but not before a corporal and two privates had been literally wiped out of existence.
Secondly, he knew full well that the Head of the German Secret Service would not overlook his blunder unless he promptly outweighed his error by a brilliant coup.
It was one of those beacons whose usefulness, nay indispensability, to friendly crafts more than outweighed the service it might render to hostile craft.
After thirteen days of patrol work without being in touch with land, the prospect of receiving letters from home was one that outweighedall others, unless, perhaps--harrowing thought!
The names of the stars would also be more appropriate, for it is the Sacrifice of Christ which they foreshadowed, and here it was that the price which covered was paid, and outweighed the price which was deficient.
The left scale grew mountains high, but the other, filled with the blood of atonement, still outweighed it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outweighed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
