Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: outgrown
IPA transcription: [,aʊtɡɹ'oʊn]
Usage examples
  • She had outgrown it somewhat since she had first been nicknamed the Little Colonel.
  • Surrender is a sort unknown On this superior soil; Defeat, an outgrown anguish, Remembered as the mile
  • Yet the main cause lay deeper still; she had outgrown stimulants, and was passing from words to things.
  • Once they had been sympathetic, but he had outgrown that. His hands were large, white, and well-kept, his fingers knotted, and blunt at the tips.
  • It is a little less than two and one-half miles around the city wall, but the city itself has outgrown these limitations, quite a portion of it being on the outside of the wall.