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  • verb Present participle of outsing.

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Examples

  • His first was a decade ago, singing Oroveso in an ill-starred Norma whose vocal highlights were Gary Rideout as Flavio, handily outsinging the Pollione, and Anna Caterina Antonacci as a dramatic Adalgisa with a very short top.

    Auf wiedersehn, Donald Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • And with a voice that can do what his can, a person can afford a little wobble or two here and there -- he's still outsinging the hell out of the rest of the competition.

    Adam Lambert sings "The Tracks of My Tears." Ann Althouse 2009

  • His first was a decade ago, singing Oroveso in an ill-starred Norma whose vocal highlights were Gary Rideout as Flavio, handily outsinging the Pollione, and Anna Caterina Antonacci as a dramatic Adalgisa with a very short top.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • Once she had brought him to a tardy realization of her superiority over Constance Stevens, by outsinging the latter, along with all the other contestants, she was certain that admiration for herself as a singer would blot out any unpleasant impression he might earlier have conceived of her.

    Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore Pauline Lester

  • They were not really spinning, -- any one could see that, but they were sticking very closely to their business of each outsinging the other, and collectively of drowning out the orchestra.

    Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Some women can only sing their best when they think of the other women they are outsinging.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

  • The little waves were glittering and dancing in the sunshine, and chiming with the merry carols of the larks, outsinging one another in the blue sky overhead.

    The Doctor's Dilemma Hesba Stretton 1871

  • Naima is outsinging Jacob by several laps tonight.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011

  • So unless you are a music Connoisseur, put a sock in it and watch this week's performance. zarak khan Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09: 58 AM EST its the other way around hes outsinging danny gokey terri Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09: 58 AM EST

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • I often feel embarrassed by 400 away fans outsinging 5,000 home fans, but what can I do about it?

    unknown title 2009

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