Outnumber

//aʊtˈnʌmbə(ɹ)//

"Outnumber" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The enemy's forces outnumber us ten to one.

The dead outnumber the living.

They outnumber us three to one.

Female students outnumber male students on campus.

Female students slightly outnumber male students.

In fact, in both San Francisco and New York, wealthy renters outnumber well-to-do buyers.

In this area, Berber speakers far outnumber their Arabic counterparts.

When it is remembered that these cases outnumber all others—that there are more species of parasites than there are species of all other animals put together—it will be seen that the expression "survivorship of the better" is wholly inappropriate, and the argument Mr. Martineau bases upon it quite untenable.

Just a few decades ago, domestic sheep outnumbered people in the Rocky Mountain West. Today, people far outnumber the sheep — not just here in Sun Valley, but all around the region. In some cases, the century-old tradition of the western sheep drive is being replaced by more expensive trucking.

Women outnumbered men by two to one.

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There are 105 D.B. Type "23" engines and they were intended to replace the famous Prussian "P8" class 4-6-0s (Type "38"), but dieselisation prevented further construction and they are greatly outnumbered by the thousand or so "P8s" which are still in service and which can be seen on a great variety of duties.

Vastly outnumbering the Jews, Palestinian Arabs during the period after the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate always refused anything that would compromise their dominance.

When reports surfaced early this summer that our contractors in Iraq (180,000, of whom some 48,000 are believed to be security personnel) now outnumber our postsurge troop strength, we yawned.

The striking aspect of clinicide is the scale of suspicious deaths with which it is associated, which outnumbers proven murders by an order of magnitude (in [Harold] Shipman's case, a factor of (240-15)#47;15#61;15), a figure that only hints at the enormous interpersonal disruption and family grief which follows in its wake.

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