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  • verb Present participle of outfly.

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Examples

  • Admiral Piett signalled from Executor that the moon has been completely incinerated, reducing the likelihood of damage from the kind of outflying debris we saw when we toasted Alderaan.

    Archive 2005-05-08 2005

  • Admiral Piett signalled from Executor that the moon has been completely incinerated, reducing the likelihood of damage from the kind of outflying debris we saw when we toasted Alderaan.

    Blasted Contractors! 2005

  • It doesn't matter how good a WWI superpilot superhero superace you are, you ain't outflying a fairdinkum bird of prey.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • It doesn't matter how good a WWI superpilot superhero superace you are, you ain't outflying a fairdinkum bird of prey.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Headless Staffel - Robert J. Hogan Blue Tyson 2007

  • Apple-blossoms died quietly in the deep orchard grass, and tiny apples waxed and rounded and ripened and gained stripes of gold and carmine; and the blue eggs broke into young robins, that grew from gaping, yellow-mouthed youth to fledged and outflying maturity.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

  • Thus the trio sped through the coming of autumn dusk, outflying the fallen leaves that tumbled upon the wind.

    Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Off the bedevilled wretches pranced, and they kicked, they snorted, whinnied, rolled, galloped, outflying the wind, but not the dismal rider.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Off the bedevilled wretches pranced, and they kicked, they snorted, whinnied, rolled, galloped, outflying the wind, but not the dismal rider.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Off the bedevilled wretches pranced, and they kicked, they snorted, whinnied, rolled, galloped, outflying the wind, but not the dismal rider.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • Corso degli Adimari -- the horse with the singular jockey, the contadina with the remarkable hose, and the doctor in lather and spectacles, with furred mantle outflying.

    Romola George Eliot 1849

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