1. Lisbon outshone Venice as a mart for oriental spices.

2. Her spiritual beauty outshone her physical beauty.

3. Several new players outshone the veterans.

4. The young girl violinist outshone all the other competitors.

5. He far outshone the rest of the class.

6. Ben Palmer easily outshone his rivals in the 200 metre freestyle.

7. Charest outshone Campbell with his performance in five televised debates during the campaign.

8. But she was definitely outshone by the peacock colours and silky materials of her companions.

9. The young Japanese violinist outshone every other musician at the concert.

10. His fielding has outshone his power in this series, but his forbearance beats both.

11. Kelly was outstanding and outshone every other player on the field.

12. Doctor Clayton was...determined not to be outshone.

13. Redzepi, Bras and Barbot outshone the local cuisine.

14. But the president has been outshone by Laurence Golborne, his equally ubiquitous mining minister.

15. In voters' eyes Mrs Merkel outshone her previous government, a "grand coalition" with the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

16. Their fans would say that they consistently outshone their indie contemporaries Blur and Oasis.

17. The reason why Yu Hua's pioneer works outshone the rest in the 1980s and later the warm ones are still cadenza in literature circle is the fusion of traditional and modern consciousness in creation.

18. Debenhams has outshone Next by exceeding sales expectations in the face of Britain's sporting summer.

19. It narrowly beat much bigger rival and fellow supermarkets group J Sainsbury to the top slot, and outshone Tesco.

20. If the Prime Minister was brilliant, he was certainly spectacularly outshone in the opening speeches.

21. Jupiter is highest, near the top of the frame, but even the solar sytem's ruling gas giant is outshone by brilliant Venus near picture center.

22. When it comes to being able to compete at the highest level, however, Chinese women have easily outshone the men.

1. Her spiritual beauty outshone her physical beauty.