How to Use outbid in a Sentence

outbid

verb
  • The team may have to outbid other suitors.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The more teams the Yankees have to outbid, the more Bellinger could cost them.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The Dodgers are one of the few teams that can outbid the Yankees in free agency.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Plenty of teams will want him, and the Blue Jays will have to outbid or match the best offer.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
  • However, free agency means that they can be outbid by a more desperate suitor.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In one case, she was outbid for a home in Pasadena by $225,000.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Miami could easily be outbid by at least five teams with better rosters.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
  • An avid boxing fan, Johnson wasn't going to be outbid for the Ali painting.
    — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Collectives raised money to throw at recruits in an effort to outbid other schools for the best talent.
    — Payton Titus, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Should the Yankees worry about the Rangers' ability to outbid them?
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
  • While people blame these investors for driving up prices by outbidding families, research on this is mixed.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The other side of the coin toss would see Paramount outbid Netflix for Warner.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • However, the Blue Jays will have to be willing to outbid other suitors.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The Mets outbid the Yankees, who came in at sixteen years and $760 million.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The bigger challenge will be finding the right talent to use that cash on and outbidding all the other teams with plenty of money to spend.
    — James Mirtle, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • So, even if some team clears max room, the Hornets can outbid them in total dollars, length and yearly bumps without sweating the cap sheet.
    — Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
  • The question is, will another team emerge in the Giannis sweepstakes and outbid the Heat?
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
  • The Red Sox were among a group of teams that also made an offer to Bregman, but they were ultimately outbid.
    — Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Jordan remembers one owner who accepted a tenant who had been outbid by other applicants but agreed to build out the closets at their own cost.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 17 June 2026
  • The Hornets can outbid any other team in total dollars, length and yearly bumps without worrying about the cap number.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 12 June 2026
  • Edney says a Yaggy would come up occasionally for auction, but the library was always outbid.
    — Jackie Northam, NPR, 7 Dec. 2025
  • In the end, though, Biden was outbid by two people, both of whom were willing to shell out $125,000 each for the prize package.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The producers were instantly high on the script and took the spec to market, where Netflix was blown away by the package and outbid multiple buyers.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, that comes after Beth and Rip outbid Beulah on a bull at a local auction — further deepening the feud.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • Frontier proposed a deal in 2022 but was outbid by JetBlue, whose hostile takeover attempt was blocked by a judge.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • When supply tightens, richer nations outbid poorer ones for scarce cargoes, leaving more vulnerable economies short of fuel.
    — ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The deal saw Jackson outbid Paul McCartney himself.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Will a team with more draft assets — and better trade chips — enter the Antetokounmpo sweepstakes and outbid the Heat?
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Some politicians endorsed it as a move to stop corporate landlords from being able to outbid families, and buying up large chunks of local housing markets with cash offers.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 23 June 2026
  • But the star also expressed his own interest in a reunion to Heyman, meaning the Phillies likely have to just not get hopelessly outbid.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025

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