Sami hoped to outshine his siblings by doing well at school.

At new moon, the Moon is lined up between the Earth and the Sun. We see the side of the Moon that is not being lit by the Sun. In other words, we see no Moon at all, because the brightness of the Sun outshines the dim Moon!

Mary wasn't the type of person who was destined to grow old. She was like a supernova in the sky, one might say: as with most of us, an inconspicuous, perhaps even invisible, star which then breaks out as an explosion of light to become one who briefly outshines all others, only to tragically end while others are not nearly as bright but shine on.

Philippine indigenous culture is quite aural-oral as television, videos, and movies outshine literature. Often, the English-language section of Philippine bookstores is larger than the indigenous-language section.