How to Use outlast in a Sentence

outlast

verb
  • The top notes fade away the fastest, then the middle notes, leaving the base notes to outlast them all.
    Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Now one of the few challenges that remains is to outlast the Rolling Stones.
    Lori Majewski, Variety, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The phrase, which outlasted the show, refers to the resilience of theater in the face of insane odds.
    Rachel Shteir, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Russia’s strategy to win the war in Ukraine is to outlast the West.
    Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The iPhone 14 has a slightly larger battery than the iPhone 14 Pro but can’t outlast it.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Danny Kaye and Cary Grant aside, some of your movies are going to outlast you.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 9 Mar. 2023
  • And his postgame massage has outlasted any stragglers in the room.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Rangers outlasted one of the best starting pitchers in baseball.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
  • In the end, one player must outlast their competition and expose the Mole to win the prize pot.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Denham hopes to outlast the restaurant (and then some).
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Of course, that cat is unlikely to stay on the right side of the room, and our linear thinker is unlikely to outlast 20 cats.
    Marie-Caroline Chauvet, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Toys that outlast the latest trends are a tough bunch: What is the secret to moving from fad to classic?
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The Red Raiders outlasted the Bearcats 39-36 in triple overtime last season.
    al, 12 Sep. 2023
  • But Taillon and the Yankees couldn’t outlast Verlander and the Astros.
    James Wagner, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • And like her predecessors, Iger is poised to outlast her stay.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
  • All this music suggests a will to create that may outlast the will to destroy.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Three Snitker moves enabled the Braves to outlast the Mets in last year’s division race.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • And Wyoming outlasted Texas Tech 35-33 in double overtime in Laramie.
    oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Its natural fibers can outlast many of the other sweaters in your drawer with a little TLC.
    Taryn Mohrman, Good Housekeeping, 12 Oct. 2022
  • For the most part, red wines will outlast whites, but don’t tell that to a Riesling producer from Germany or Alsace.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2023
  • But Hester’s and Scowen’s and Hubble’s work would, in the fullness of time, far outlast the other news that broke on that spring morning 27 years ago.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The winning player must outlast their competition and expose the Mole to take home the money pot.
    Ej Panaligan, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
  • This is something that's going to outlast Trump himself.
    CBS News, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The Celtics had outlasted their mirror images, won the shootout, and headed back home feeling better about their path to the playoffs.
    Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But many plants, with the right care, can outlast their human owners and live for generations.
    Lauren David, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The image of Mongols as brutes outlasted their conquests.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • And the defense, despite being left on the field far too long for any defense to outlast an offense like the Bills, never let this one turn into a blowout.
    Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • After a tough start to the week, the duo rebounded to outlast their opposition from Lakota East 6-2, 6-3.
    Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Keep scrolling to discover which ones will outlast the effects of the pandemic to redefine the health landscape for years — and decades to come.
    ELLE, 22 Nov. 2022
  • To stick with the theme throughout the Sweet 16 predictions, the better defense should be able to outlast the nastier offense.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023

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