How to Use outnumber in a Sentence

outnumber

verb
  • But most of the time, almost all the time, I’m outnumbered.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The people who lived in Rafah before the war are outnumbered four to one by the displaced.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • In most instances, the staff outnumber the leaders 15 to one.
    — Randy Shattuck, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • In her roster of friends, the dead now far outnumber the living.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • And starting in 2016, used sales began to outnumber new in the state.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Now the pews, chairs and furniture have been pushed aside to make room, and the dead far outnumber the living.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The few who speak in the board’s favor are vastly outnumbered.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2025
  • As for Henry’s touches in the game, go back and look at the film and see how many times the Browns outnumbered the Ravens around the line of scrimmage.
    — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Probably not, and the so-so ads outnumbered the clear winners and losers.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Feb. 2020
  • They were outnumbered for most of the day by journalists.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • And, as in so many fields, at first the skeptics vastly outnumbered the early-adopters.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • Burns and Logan Couture got caught behind the net as the Sharks were outnumbered in front.
    — Ross McKeon, SFChronicle.com, 7 Mar. 2020
  • For the first time since the AfD’s rise over the last 10 years, supporters in Berlin outnumbered counterprotesters.
    — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • This is the first time mail votes will outnumber in-person ballots.
    — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Wind turbines outnumbered oil structures by the end of 2020.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That’s kind of a big deal in a place where Catholics alone once outnumbered evangelicals by about 2 to 1.
    — The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Normally, all hair goes through these stages at random and the growing hairs on the rest of the head outnumber the hairs that fall out.
    — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The nice stories, however, were outnumbered by the grim ones.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Shawn Johnson East and her husband are about to be outnumbered.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Nonproducing wells that haven’t been plugged now outnumber active wells in the gulf, the study says.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • So, too, does giving a voice to voters, even if they’re outnumbered.
    — Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024
  • The flies far outnumbered the two live and one dead roaches, although that one dead roach did mar a clean cutting board.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Women outnumber men five to one; most brides-to-be bring along either a posse of friends or their mother.
    — Tom Rowley, 1843, 6 Mar. 2020
  • On that battlefield, the U.S. Army’s artillery pieces would be outnumbered by the Russians’ by a ratio of at least two to one.
    — Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But at a meeting in early February, on the second floor of city hall, the alders were outnumbered.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Cattle far outnumber wild horses on the range and compete for the same resources.
    — Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 June 2022
  • And while there are rain chances sprinkled across the forecast, dry times far outnumber rainier moments.
    — Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Tell me more about that, because for the first time the rookies actually outnumber the vets.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The Xs are outnumbered, and players are turning on each other.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • The emphasis on Arabic is part of a broad effort to get Emirati studies into schools, in a country where expats outnumber locals nearly nine to one.
    — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 25 June 2025

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