stepped out

past tense of step out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stepped out Spatola stepped out of fatigues and back on to the hardwood as an assistant coach for Duke basketball between 2007 and 2012. — David K. Li, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2026 Engagement rumors between the two began to surface in 2016 and Munn even stepped out with a ruby on her ring finger. — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 The couple stepped out for the opening night of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles on September 19. — Meg Walters, InStyle, 20 Sep. 2026 The actress stepped out in an all-black lace and tulle ensemble in New York on Monday. — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026 The newlyweds stepped out hand in hand in London two months after their nuptials. — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2026 After a week that saw the Prince and Princess of Wales drop their son Prince George off for his first day at Eton College, following in the footsteps of his father three decades ago, the couple stepped out together again this afternoon in Liverpool. — Olivia Allen, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stepped out
Verb
  • Scarlett Johansson sued you over that, alleging that Disney cheated her out of box office upside.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
  • OpenAI revealed that the Hugging Face hack wasn't the only time its bots had lied, cheated, and hidden its tracks from humans.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, three of those whales have died, along with another Shedd whale that did not come from Marineland.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • This was a place that had died, a place where life no longer existed.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Researchers mixed ice with cellulose nanocrystals, extremely small, stiff particles made from cellulose.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Beyond’s sound and look, which mixed international rock influences with a Hong Kong that was changing fast through the 1980s and early 1990s, became bound up with a generation of young fans.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.
    — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Vines are pulled away from fences, and sometimes trees are even felled.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The juicy slab of brisket was roughly double the diameter of the plush biscuit, and the flavors mingled well.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Guests mingled at the Bill Blass town house Thursday night for an up-close look at the vintage Bill Blass pieces, fashion sketches and personal letters across the designer’s career that are being auctioned at Christie’s.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Essential California checked out the trials, tested airport counters, walked through the terminal’s new gates and conversed with excited passengers looking forward to their next flight out of Burbank.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Staff described students as often seeming physically and mentally worn down and checked out.
    — Crystal Cederna, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • SpaceX says this removes potential failure points associated with a separate hydraulic system and with running out of hydraulic fluid.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Very strong El Niño events has been associated with floods and famine in the past.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Pries’s suggestion, known as the inverse Galois problem, was inspired by the work of the 19th-century French mathematician Évariste Galois, who perished after he was wounded in a gun duel at age 20.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • As a result, more people have now died of environmental illnesses that followed the September 11 attacks than perished during the collapse of the towers that day.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026

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“Stepped out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stepped%20out. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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