How to Use outnumber in a Sentence

outnumber

verb

• With 20 girls and 10 boys in the class, girls outnumber boys by 2 to 1.
• 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
• They were outnumbered for most of the day by journalists.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Police have been besieged and outnumbered to combat the armed gangs.
  — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The stores are far outnumbered by their unlicensed competitors, more than 1,500 of which have set up shop in New York City alone.
  — Ashley Southall, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• And in both states, only-Trump voters are outnumbered by the third of the electorate who aren't considering him at all.
  — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
• They are outnumbered by men 26 to 1 in the S&P leadership ranks, a gap five times wider than the disparity for white women.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Mar. 2023
• In the future, the elderly could outnumber the young, leaving not enough workers to pay taxes and fill jobs.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
• Grimes had told his family so much about him and theirs is the kind of home where animals outnumber people.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• There have been - and there will be - many days and nights when Yankees fans badly outnumber Orioles rooters here.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• Already, on some Paris boulevards, bikes outnumber cars at peak times.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2023
• The trainers — outnumbered, of course — join their charges to defeat their enemies.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• No matter where guests stay there's sure to be plenty of pampering, with crew set to outnumber the amount of passengers on the ship.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Oct. 2023
• Cody showed up at a few of Cody Wish’s races, most notably at the Breeders’ Cup, where cameras outnumbered the horse’s connections.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• But what's certain is that Breed isn't getting a free pass from her fellow Democrats, who outnumber Republicans in the city nine to one.
  — Cooper Burton, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2024
• For the first time in history, plants and animals on land started to outnumber aquatic life-forms.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2023
• Most live behind gates in houses where the staff outnumber the residents.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
• There were more Trump supporters than opponents, but the entire group was outnumbered by media near the Rice Street entrance to the jail, which was locked down tight.
  — Sudhin Thanawala and Kate Brumback, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• Though humans still outnumber rats, the rodent population is on the rise, fueled by an ever-present, all-you-can-eat buffet of trash in the city.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024