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Example sentences for "exceed"

Lexicographically close words:
excavating; excavation; excavations; excavator; excavators; exceede; exceeded; exceedeth; exceeding; exceedingly
  1. These potatoes be the most delicate rootes that may be eaten, and doe farre exceed our passeneps or carets.

  2. Nothing can exceed the irritation caused by the stinking bugs when they get into the hair or between the linen and the body; and if they be bruised upon it the skin comes off[415].

  3. All the works of our Creator are great, and worthy of our attention and investigation, the lowest in the scale as well as the highest, the most minute and feeble, as well as those that exceed in magnitude and might.

  4. It would, however, be endless to produce all the instances which occur of such imitations: and I shall only remark that, generally speaking, these arms and instruments in structure and finishing far exceed those which they resemble.

  5. These nests, which do not exceed six or eight inches in diameter, are generally found in meadows and pastures, and sometimes in hedge-rows where the soil is entangled with roots.

  6. In variegation insects certainly exceed every other class of animated beings.

  7. The gold and silver concealed by the natives were affirmed greatly to exceed in quantity that which fell into the hands of the Spaniards.

  8. For some distance above and below the falls, the bed of the river contracted so that its width did not exceed twenty feet.

  9. The whole number did not exceed one hundred and eighty men, with twenty-seven horses for the cavalry.

  10. According to the last authority, the empire, in its greatest breadth, did not exceed one hundred and twenty leagues.

  11. Well, the Romans in discipline and order exceed the Sarci as much as we exceed the rest of the Iceni.

  12. It was known that the garrison did not exceed four hundred men, and there was no fear of so small a body assuming the offensive.

  13. As for play, we shall limit ourselves; so that our losses must never exceed three crowns.

  14. Men and women, sitting on the ground, patiently wait for hours to make trifling sales, the profit on which cannot exceed a few pennies, and often the poor creatures sell little or nothing.

  15. The area covered by the city cannot much exceed sixty acres, the town being built in a very compact manner, a bird's-eye view of which makes it resemble the outspread human hand.

  16. These do not exceed twenty-five or thirty feet in height, and are thought to have been dedicated to the stars, and also to have served as sepulchres for illustrious men.

  17. For violation of this law there was a jail sentence and fine not to exceed $500, one or both.

  18. If my lord should grant (and I will put it with the most) that they who are proprietors in land, exceeding this proportion, exceed not 300, with what brow can the interest of so few be balanced with that of the whole nation?

  19. The survice berry differs somewhat from that of the U States the bushes are small sometimes not more than 2 feet high and scarcely ever exceed 8 and are proportionably small in their stems, growing very thickly ascosiated in clumps.

  20. North, the high lands which is on the Northe Side does not exceed 80 feet high, at this Place the river appears to be Confd.

  21. Hills or high land for Several days past or above the 2 Charletons does not exceed 100 foot passed a Batteau or Sand roleing where the Boat was nearly turning over by her Strikeing & turning on the Sand.

  22. But if he is not to be bailed, let him go to jail, where the total cost of his keep will not exceed 25 or 30 cents a day or whatever it is.

  23. When their inequities exceed all bounds, Vishnu will Himself incarnate to kill them.

  24. But that King was not to exceed the proper bounds.

  25. You will exceed the limits of both right and wrong and do things just like a child.

  26. In another establishment of the same class in the same borough every male laborer gets $8 or over, and more than half the female dippers and packers exceed the rates given in the former plant.

  27. Nothing could exceed the delicacy of its features, or the brilliancy of its tints.

  28. You are certain you did not exceed seventy?

  29. The time thus spent has never been known to exceed three days.

  30. These beautiful solids exhibit not more than ordinary variation in size, and rarely exceed 1.

  31. Nothing can exceed the attachment of the parents to their charges.

  32. Some are found to exceed the above dimensions, and others to fall considerably short of them.

  33. This language is strictly true; for the boldest, nay, the most impudent imagination would be unable to invent anything to exceed the false and absurd reports already printed by foreign newspapers.

  34. Our total exports to all the countries which are now at war do not, in my belief--I have not looked into the figures--exceed our exports to India and Australia taken alone.

  35. When, however, I gave him to understand that he had altogether mistaken my views, nothing could exceed his grief and disappointment.

  36. Nothing can exceed the fierce gesticulation of these people when animated in conversation, and on this occasion they gave loose to all their natural vivacity, shouting and dancing about in a manner that well-nigh intimidated us.

  37. Nothing can exceed the imposing scenery of this bay.

  38. In order not to exceed too much the limits of our task, we must avoid going more into the details of the relations between religion and morality in general, than is absolutely necessary for the solution of our main problem.

  39. As his dimensions greatly exceed those of an otter, I am tempted to think with Trinculo, "This is the devil, and no monster.

  40. The front, upon which the armies engaged, does not exceed a long mile.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exceed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bang; beat; best; better; bulk; cap; cob; ding; exaggerate; exceed; excel; improve; lead; loom; outdo; outshine; outstrip; outweigh; overcome; overpass; overreach; overrun; overshoot; overstep; pass; perfect; predominate; preponderate; prevail; rear; shade; soar; strain; surpass; top; tower; transcend; transgress; trump


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    exceeding abundantly above all; exceeding good; exceeding great; exceedingly common; exceedingly dangerous; exceedingly difficult; exceedingly glad; exceedingly good; exceedingly great; exceedingly interesting; exceedingly obliged; exceedingly rare; exceedingly small