outsang
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Echols, in particular, outsang everyone else on stage in some of the ensembles.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2015
At 20, she outsang 2,000 contestants to win the annual audition and a contract at the Metropolitan Opera.
From Time Magazine Archive
For one thing, the mocking-birds outsang themselves till I felt, and wrote, that I had never heard mocking-birds before.
From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford
The music paused for him, and we could suddenly hear how many babies were in distress; but for a moment only; as we began our counting, "White Wings" resumed, and the sun-bonnets outsang their progeny.
From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister, Owen
We mourn, for love of a song that outsang the lark, That nought so lovely beholden of Sirmio's lover Made glad in Propontis the flight of his Pontic bark.
From A Century of Roundels by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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