EXCEL in a Sentence

Learn EXCEL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
291 example sentences for EXCEL, such as:
1. My performance is far below excellence.
2. Pursue excellence and success will follow.
3. The peach tree has an excellent blossom this year.
4. Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.
5. He has been a meticulous manager, a manager par excellence.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of EXCEL
excel
 v.  distinguish oneself
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As the Phaeacians are the best sailors in the world, so their women excel all others in weaving, for Minerva has taught them all manner of useful arts, and they are very intelligent.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VII
2  The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
3  In the second place, I would, from my earliest youth, apply myself to the study of arts and sciences, by which I should arrive in time to excel all others in learning.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
4  However, this confirmed my first opinion, that a people who could so far civilise brute animals, must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
5  In poetry, they must be allowed to excel all other mortals; wherein the justness of their similes, and the minuteness as well as exactness of their descriptions, are indeed inimitable.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
6  Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
7  "This certainly is a rare and brilliant instance of those natural qualities in which these peculiar people are said to excel," he answered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
8  "Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
9  And this we see in the case of those nations which have been thought to excel both in their government and otherwise, as, for instance, the Romans and the Spartans.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV.
10  Conversely, when two consecutive princes are of rare excellence, we commonly find them achieving results which win for them enduring renown.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX.
11  And herein we recognize the excellence of this city of Rome, and of the materials whereof it was composed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII.
12  So that the question may seem to be equally balanced, excellence on one side generally finding excellence on the other.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIII.
13  Such commands are useful in a republic, as restoring its ordinances to their original efficacy and excellence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ...
14  This we see in all human affairs, and the result is, that unless fortune aid us to overcome this natural and common disadvantage, we never arrive at any excellence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVII.
15  The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI.
Example Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  Camden, our news intern, is creating an excel spreadsheet to see what all these stats mean.
2  The department of dentistry is dedicated to the lifelong education of its students so they may excel as dental professionals.
3  Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.
4  A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellence of heart.
5  Envy is blind and kows nothing except how to depreciate the excellence of others.
6  The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue.
7  Pursue excellence and success will follow.
8  He has been a meticulous manager, a manager par excellence.
9  My performance is far below excellence.
10  Life's like a play: It's not the length,but the excellence of the acting that matters.
11  Ready and spontaneous skill in rebuttal is the final excellence of debating.
12  The underachieving Monsters University is Pixar's first prequel, but it's also part of a disquieting trend by the 'toon titan to accept adequacy over excellence.
13  His ability to empathize with people made him an excellent marriage counsellor.
14  The peach tree has an excellent blossom this year.
15  The new arrangement enabled the police to gain an excellent idea of the total troop strength.