(1) The track star outran all of his competitors.

(2) The thieves easily outran the policewoman who was chasing them.

(3) The favourite easily outran the other horses in the field.

(4) Chronically underfunded and overspending, development costs always outran returns.

(5) The bull outran him and beat him with a club, and when the hobo went down, he stayed down.

(6) The reason is quite clear - desire outran performance by eleven years.

(7) City growth far outran the general population boom.

(8) The TV program outran its time.

(9) But the pace of the war outran them again.

(10) The literary urge outran the knowable facts even in the most crucial episode in Malcolm's childhood.

(11) But the people's enthusiasm for the boycotts far outran the merchants'.

(12) The chancery had returned to Carolingian practices[sentencedict .com], but with an energy which outran its model.

(13) Once again, however, the ability of politicians and economists to conceptualise well outran their inclination to examine and analyse practical implications.

(14) Fleet-footed young men were always arriving to race with her and she always outran them.

(15) Used to moving fast on jobs, Fitzgerald took to his heels and outran the bees over a couple of hundred yards.

(16) Welles gives us a portrait of a gargantuan man of unlimited ambitions and appetites, whose excesses outran his resources.

(17) Smaller species lived in underground dens, and could probably burrow for prey if it outran them.

(18) He had glanced over a bibliography, and his conversation far outran his reading.