How to Use outpace in a Sentence

outpace

verb
  • Its growth this year has outpaced gains in the broad S&P 500 stock index.
    Hallie Jackson, NBC news, 12 June 2025
  • The increase in housing costs in the last five years outpaced wage gains.
    Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Whether the next variant could outpace delta isn’t clear.
    Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Global heat records outpace cold records — 2023 was the hottest year on record by a huge margin.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Warm records far outpace cooler ones and the gap is growing.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But iPhone revenue will outpace unit sales growth thanks to the price increase.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
  • But some nations in Asia will still outpace the United States.
    Charles Riley, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Over the past two decades, health care costs have far outpaced inflation.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Wallen outpaced Bad Bunny in streams from Tampa this year and claimed his No. 3 spot.
    Yacob Reyes, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Last year, the District surpassed 200 homicides for the first time in over a decade, and the city is on track to outpace that grim milestone this year.
    Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • And wage growth for workers has outpaced price increases over the past year.
    Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • The senior outpaced Sharon’s Nina Kyei-Aboagye by .64 ticks.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 22 Feb. 2025
  • She’s already outpaced her sales for the entirety of last year.
    Megan Sauer, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The tech-heavy Nasdaq has been outpacing the broader S&P 500 by a wide margin.
    Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
  • On the pitching side, while less drastic, the Giants continue to outpace the league.
    Nick Lozito, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Four-year colleges outpace two-years on total costs, but not by much.
    Rebecca Griesbach | , al, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Sheriff’s deputies driving 45 mph couldn’t outpace the flames.
    Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Look to the future and plant small trees, which will be better adapted to their new homes and soon outpace the unwieldy and root-butchered big, new tree.
    Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The stock has gained more than 46% in the past month and nearly 42% in the past three, far outpacing the broader market in those periods.
    Sean Conlon,pia Singh, CNBC, 4 June 2025
  • The stock has soared 34% this year, far outpacing the broader Hang Seng Index's 1.5% gain.
    Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 31 July 2023
  • Kansas City home prices have outpaced the increases in both states.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2024
  • That will happen when Indian growth is tipped to outpace China’s in a big way in 2023.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The worst of the latest delta wave has crested, but infections and deaths here still outpace other states.
    Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
  • At some point, demand for a product needs to outpace spending.
    Bill Alena, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But in many of these places, housing supply has outpaced demand.
    Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Home-price growth climbed to a record in June, as robust demand continued to outpace the number of homes on the market.
    Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Lumen Christi got off to a relatively slow start, but used a big third quarter to outpace the Shamans.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But the eviction filings increase has outpaced the Valley's growth.
    Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2024
  • In-house now outpaces Big Law as a percentage of total legal spend, a reflection of corporate buyers’ search for alternatives to the legacy firm model.
    Mark A. Cohen, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • YouTube consistently ranks as the top streamer in the U.S., far outpacing its competitors, including Netflix, in terms of monthly average usage time.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 9 June 2025

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