The rabbit had no chance of outrunning the dogs.
His motorcycle could outrun any car on the road.
Recent Examples on the WebWatch this 👀 Subway sprint: Two friends tried to outrun a New York City train.—Daniel Wine, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024 Escape on horseback goes south:Video shows suspect trying to outrun police on horseback before being caught
What are signs of bird flu?—USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024 At the top of this list is Manchin, who in 2012 essentially reversed President Barack Obama's losing margin, outrunning the Democratic presidential ticket in West Virginia by about 51 points in the process.—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2024 The once revolutionary fake meat purveyor can’t seem to outrun the looming specter of its own demise.—Marnie Shure / The Takeout, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024 Give me George Kittle out-receiving Travis Kelce and Christian McCaffrey outrunning Isiah Pacheco.—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024 Cockerill and the team addressed that in this series by not giving the bugs a name and showcasing the very real struggles in their lives, from outrunning a hungry mantis, finding food, to avoiding being squished by our shoes.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2024 RuPaul has been trying to outrun that kind of thinking for a long time.—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024 That’s speedy enough to outrun the fastest human, most horses, and just about all their natural predators.—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2024
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