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Example sentences for "outwit"

Lexicographically close words:
outweigh; outweighed; outweighing; outweighs; outwent; outwith; outwits; outwitted; outwitting; outwork
  1. The 'varsity scored twice by straight football and once by the use of tricks which were designed to outwit Claflin a week later.

  2. Because of this I was forced to take great thought to outwit them.

  3. Then again the Men-kind, in their selfishness, thought to outwit me, for about the small village they built a stockade.

  4. Let's call them together, and tell them more about their secret class meeting, and challenge them to try to outwit us!

  5. So she set about to discover the sophomore's plan, and to outwit the girls if she could.

  6. Just fancy, his business was to outwit others, and a couple of mere amateurs had outgeneraled him.

  7. Have no fears, mademoiselle, we shall outwit these scoundrels!

  8. The Fondeges think they can outwit me, but we shall soon see about that.

  9. Maybe we can outwit them at their own game," he cried.

  10. And in the meantime those rascals will have a good chance to outwit us," said Sam, bitterly.

  11. Billy the Gawk was not alone in thinking that he could outwit the Bishop.

  12. And as Billy the Gawk drank his drop of the real stuff he laughed very loud and boasted that he could outwit the Bishop.

  13. A great editor or bishop was a man who taught their doctrines; a great statesman was a man who made the laws for them; a great lawyer was one who helped them to outwit the public.

  14. Could she outwit these two who were plotting against her and her lover?

  15. He's a bad, cruel man, but he is a rare and clever one too, and he will outwit a slip of a lass like you.

  16. Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, That the wisest of us all should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

  17. Well, it's all right to outwit the Austrians," muttered Aaron.

  18. You thought to outwit me; we shall see which will outwit the other.

  19. He wearied of the idle circling, and, confident of his own ability to outwit his antagonist, he dropped his guard for the very purpose of drawing out the other.

  20. He saw what the others were getting, and he flew himself through on a jet of pure oxygen--" He stopped in utter admiration of the quickness of thought that could outwit death in an instant like that.

  21. Between them they'd outwit this devil of Ganymede.

  22. This time he falls in love, and there is a wicked old woman in the way; but you will learn some day that true love is able to defy and to outwit all its enemies!

  23. Sometimes they challenged him to friendly contests, whereupon He-who-was-first-Created taught his little brother how to outwit them by clever tricks and devices.

  24. If we outwit them now, it's no thanks to my tactics, but only to that generous and astonishing madman.

  25. Several times during this crossing of the gorge Tarzan endeavored to outwit his keen pursuers, but all to no avail.

  26. It should be easy to outwit such as these.

  27. As to his setting me ashore, that he could do, and whether I should be able to outwit him in such a manoeuvre, I cannot tell; but in no other way could he get rid of me, unless by throwing me overboard.

  28. No scheme as yet offers, but will you trust me as an English sailor to find a means to outwit these Dutchmen, ay, though the Devil himself kept watch when they were abed?

  29. Illustration: An Application to the Cardinal for his Favour (Walter Gay)] The life of a king in feeble health was all that stood between the Cardinal and ruin, and several times it seemed impossible that he should outwit his enemies.

  30. He had a cunning adversary in one Madame de Chevreuse, who would ride with the fearless speed of a man to outwit any scheme of Richelieu.

  31. I could outwit a score of men like Muggs without calling any of my organization to my aid.

  32. It will be entertaining to outwit you continually, to make you the laughingstock of the city.

  33. They take great pleasure in helping outwit the stupid men on your force.

  34. And a crane thought, on seeing the fish-- “I must outwit these fish somehow or other and make a prey of them.

  35. And the other did not see that he was trying to outwit him, and agreed.

  36. To give over her ancestral homestead for a pauper institution that was neither needed nor necessary, and was only a spiteful device of Ellen's to outwit her was an empty charity.

  37. She would find some way to outwit him when it came to the point of marrying him, she thought.

  38. The more cunning you get your detectives, the more cunning do the thieves become to outwit them.

  39. They were going to be sounded by the man who had been able to deceive and outwit the smartest British diplomatists, and instinctively they felt how powerless they would be in his hands.

  40. The town had been well provisioned, and the great empire maker had taken previous precautions to outwit his rival, W.

  41. It requires more than all these to outwit Isori.

  42. He easily outwits here men around him; most are politicians as he; but he never can outwit the statesmen of Europe.

  43. French Emperor can outwit a legion of Hugheses, and do this without the slightest effort.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outwit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bamboozle; beguile; best; betray; bluff; cajole; circumvent; conjure; conquer; deceive; defraud; delude; diddle; discomfit; dupe; elude; evade; fence; finesse; foil; forestall; frustrate; get; gull; hoax; hoodwink; humbug; juggle; mislead; mock; outclass; outdo; outflank; outguess; outreach; outrun; outshine; outstrip; outwit; overreach; override; pigeon; prey; shake; snow; trick