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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of outstare.

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Examples

  • If they outstared her, perhaps, she would go, and they would be left to perch on the chairs and make their nests in the filing cabinets.

    Tears Of The Giraffe Smith, Alexander McCall, 1948- 2000

  • He grimaced and bit his lip and tried to lock eyes with the judge, but she outstared him and he ended up looking at his hands.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • He grimaced and bit his lip and tried to lock eyes with the judge, but she outstared him and he ended up looking at his hands.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • He grimaced and bit his lip and tried to lock eyes with the judge, but she outstared him and he ended up looking at his hands.

    Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

  • She had outstared insolence and snubbed sentimentality.

    The Native Born or, the Rajah's People 1922

  • Solomon Owl did not appear to mind that, but calmly outstared Grumpy

    The Tale of Grumpy Weasel Sleepy-Time Tales Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • So I lay and stared up at the sky, until the blazing sun outstared me.

    Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • For a long moment she outstared him and he was grateful to Mr. Hamilton Dashwood’s mellow claim on the company’s attention to witness the official peak of the evening.

    Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

  • For a long moment she outstared him and he was grateful to Mr. Hamilton Dashwood’s mellow claim on the company’s attention to witness the official peak of the evening.

    Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

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