EXCEED in a Sentence
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210 example sentences for EXCEED, such as:
1. This will exceed all my expectations.
2. Last year's exports exceeded imports in value.
3. The fur trade now exceeded timber in importance.
4. The police stopped him for exceeding the speed limit.
5. Do not exceed the recommended maximum of three tablets a day.
2. Last year's exports exceeded imports in value.
3. The fur trade now exceeded timber in importance.
4. The police stopped him for exceeding the speed limit.
5. Do not exceed the recommended maximum of three tablets a day.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of EXCEED
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exceed
v. be or do something to a greater degree
v. be superior or better than some standard
Classic Sentence: (184 in 13 pages)
1 Pray make Brooke useful, and draw on me for funds if expenses exceed your estimate.
2 The emperor had a mind one day to entertain me with several of the country shows, wherein they exceed all nations I have known, both for dexterity and magnificence.
3 We compute the Tramecksan, or high heels, to exceed us in number; but the power is wholly on our side.
4 Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours.
5 No law in that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty.
6 For, although their largest telescopes do not exceed three feet, they magnify much more than those of a hundred with us, and show the stars with greater clearness.
7 It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.
8 The creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet.
9 Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced, none exceed that fine manoeuvre with the lance called pitchpoling.
10 At its utmost expansion in the full grown whale, the tail will considerably exceed twenty feet across.
11 They are comparatively delicate, indeed; I dare say, not to exceed half a dozen yards round the waist.
12 As the psalms of David exceed all other language, so does the psalmody that has been fitted to them by the divines and sages of the land, surpass all vain poetry.
13 Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity, after having detected the danger, had enabled them to ascertain its magnitude and duration.
14 He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man.
15 Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them.
2 A cover letter should never exceed one page; often a far shorter letter will suffice.
3 To me, they hide in the depths of your soul; be a distant dream, every dream will exceed your goal.
4 Do not exceed the recommended maximum of three tablets a day.
5 This will exceed all my expectations.
6 Their remedy is a cut in production to curtail the extent to which the members are exceeding their agreed quotas, something they have been doing in order to prevent shortages arising as a result of the war in Iraq.
7 They would laugh in gossamer tones, and then move on gracefully to someone else, sometimes moving gracefully at speeds exceeding 40 mph.
8 Seen by the dim light, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty.
9 The police stopped him for exceeding the speed limit.
10 The fur trade now exceeded timber in importance.
11 Last year's exports exceeded imports in value.
12 Congress exceeded its constitutional authority by requiring that all Americans obtain health insurance or pay a tax penalty.
13 The notions we children were able to form of the great world beyond were exceedingly nebulous.
14 The scenery in Switzerland is exceedingly attractive to the tourists from the whole world.
15 Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.