EXCELLENCE in a Sentence

Learn EXCELLENCE 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 EXCELLENCE, 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. If the cancer is caught early the prognosis is excellent.
5. substitutes of inferior excellence, the catbird, so often.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EXCELLENCE
excellence
 n.  the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree
 n.  an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  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.
2  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.
3  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.
4  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 ...
5  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.
6  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.
7  This connection with the well-fed and industrious stock of early New York revealed itself in the glacial neatness of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room and in the excellence of her cuisine.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  "We will not dispute concerning the excellence of the passage," returned Heyward, smiling; for, as the reader has anticipated, it was he.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
9  substitutes of inferior excellence, the catbird, so often.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
10  The cabin of Uncle Tom was a small log building, close adjoining to "the house," as the negro par excellence designates his master's dwelling.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  She thought her the model of all excellence and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often reminds me of her.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  The excellence of his understanding and his principles can be concealed only by that shyness which too often keeps him silent.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
13  Don't look forward to variety, but you'll have excellence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
14  And so it came to pass, that the bird, while out one day, met a fellow bird, to whom he boastfully expatiated on the excellence of his household arrangements.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
15  I often tell young ladies that no excellence in music is to be acquired without constant practice.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
Example Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellence of heart.
2  Envy is blind and kows nothing except how to depreciate the excellence of others.
3  The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue.
4  Pursue excellence and success will follow.
5  He has been a meticulous manager, a manager par excellence.
6  My performance is far below excellence.
7  Life's like a play: It's not the length,but the excellence of the acting that matters.
8  Ready and spontaneous skill in rebuttal is the final excellence of debating.
9  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.
10  His ability to empathize with people made him an excellent marriage counsellor.
11  The peach tree has an excellent blossom this year.
12  The new arrangement enabled the police to gain an excellent idea of the total troop strength.
13  All our hotels have been carefully selected for the excellent value they provide.
14  Hearty congratulations on your passing the examination with excellent result.
15  If the cancer is caught early the prognosis is excellent.