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Example sentences for "exceptional"

Lexicographically close words:
excepte; excepted; excepting; exception; exceptionable; exceptionally; exceptions; exceptis; excepto; excepts
  1. The manners they recommend are not those of any but a very exceptional "dancing master," they are those of a gentleman.

  2. It is true that letters cannot show in full the really exceptional versatility which enabled the same man to write Yeast and Westward Ho!

  3. She had loved him partly because he was exceptional in this scene, partly because she had determined to love him, chiefly because she was in desperate need of loving somebody after wearying of Wildeve.

  4. The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs which tradition has attached to each season of the year were yet a reality on Egdon.

  5. The day was Sunday; but as going to church, except to be married or buried, was exceptional at Egdon, this made little difference.

  6. Such very rich genera however, are not the rule, but are exceptional cases, indicating the rarity of powerful mutative changes.

  7. The principle grants the present constancy of the vast majority of living forms, and only claims the exceptional occurrence of definite changes.

  8. In addition to these and other exceptional cases, seed-cultures are henceforth to be considered as the sole means of recognizing the really existing systematic units of nature.

  9. In other words, the seeds [772] of the extreme individuals have exceptional chances of becoming better nourished than the average of the seeds of the race.

  10. One of these comprises the relation of the average of the progeny to the exceptional qualities of the chosen parent, and the other the relation of exceptional offspring to the exceptional parents.

  11. And its effect was to increase the number of full crowns to an exceptional degree.

  12. This single exceptional plant has been the starting point of my double variety.

  13. It displayed under these exceptional circumstances a capacity which never had been exceeded and [600] which of course would have remained concealed if its multiplication had been checked in the ordinary way.

  14. As a rule, and excluding exceptional cases, the extreme deviations will increase in proportion to the number of cases examined.

  15. He selected two beets, from a strain, with the exceptional amount of 23% sugar, but kept their offspring separate and analyzed some 60 of each.

  16. The Agamemnon sets forth the crime of Clytemnestra; the Choephoroe exhibits the exceptional conduct of Orestes with regard to that crime; the Eumenides contains his exculpation.

  17. As a Dorian was exceptional among the elegists, so now an Ionian will be comparatively rare among the lyrists.

  18. Mr. Morrow is already an established favourite on the hoardings of London, and justly so in that his performances are of exceptional merit.

  19. I owe exceptional opportunities for investigation and experiment; Mrs Root, children's librarian of Providence Public Library, and Miss Alice M.

  20. For, of course, there are exceptional occasions, and exceptional children; some latitude must be left for the decisions of good common sense acting on the issue of the moment.

  21. The English and French flag-ships are denoted in the plan by their exceptional size.

  22. Colonies and colonial posts were sometimes commercial, sometimes military in their character; and it was exceptional that the same position was equally important in both points of view, as New York was.

  23. For instance, how many look upon the battle of Trafalgar, the crown of Nelson's glory and the seal of his genius, as other than an isolated event of exceptional grandeur?

  24. At the same time the examiner should be on guard against mistaking exceptional timidity for inability to respond.

  25. The remaining tenth is that which connects all life with human life; and this requires tact and exceptional skill.

  26. Ask any large group of women, excepting those whose girlhood has been guarded with exceptional care, and the overwhelming majority will acknowledge that they knew the essential facts before they were fifteen years old.

  27. The five-year plan tasks are broken down by years and may be changed only in exceptional cases.

  28. Another exceptional feature of the Bulgarian population is the unusual number of very old people.

  29. As diplomats, national officials among the BZS leaders had demonstrated exceptional ability in foreign relations, especially where the regular high-ranking BKP representatives had been found less acceptable.

  30. In addition to old-age pensions there are pensions for special merit payable to persons who have made an exceptional contribution to national life and national pensions payable to fighters against fascism and capitalism.

  31. Under any but exceptional circumstances, however, graduates would be obligated to serve in the armed forces for at least ten more years.

  32. This work will be of exceptional interest to any one who is interested in lathe practice, as one very seldom sees such a complete treatise on a subject as this is on the lathe.

  33. Where exceptional strength is needed alloys of bronze may be used, and in some cases where engines are produced in large quantities a portion of the crank-case may be a sheet steel or aluminum stamping.

  34. In such circumstances, James Sheriff's loss of Green Spring Farm for debts in 1855 seems likely to have been due to exceptional misfortunes or else exceptional neglect and waste on the part of the owner.

  35. When George Daniel, a critic and bibliographer of exceptional abilities, began to collect, he soon made Shakespeare, as well as the earlier English poets, objects of solicitude.

  36. In carrying out his idea the Prince had of course the advantages of exceptional abilities, and, until the fall of the Empire, of unlimited money.

  37. If we regard clairvoyance as a normal faculty we are more likely to treat it normally than if we give it a paramount and exceptional value and seek to beatify those in whom it appears.

  38. A lady of my acquaintance saw and described a fire taking place at a country seat about 150 miles away, the incident being true to the minutest details, many of which were exceptional and in a single instance tragic.

  39. Yet these exceptional extravagances came not of weakness but from excess of power.

  40. Indeed, his intimacy with Martial is a ground for not attributing to him exceptional strictness of life.

  41. There are exceptional spots on the upland prairies composed of stiff clay, not as easily cultivated, but very productive when properly managed and enriched.

  42. Writing from Rome in August 1764 to his friend Franke, Winckelmann refers to her exceptional popularity.

  43. Now permit your exceptional minds to wander in a forest of similitudes: 'The Phoenix embroidered upon the side of the shoe: When the shoe advances the Phoenix leaps forward.

  44. Abolition of all exceptional laws, especially those relating to the press, public meetings, and associations—in short, of all laws which hinder the free expression of ideas and thought.

  45. The inability no doubt exists, but it is one created, not by the drawbacks, but by the exceptional advantages of their position.

  46. If he obtains this evidence it is safe to accept it as conclusive, though rare exceptional cases are to be met with in which the evidence counts for nothing.

  47. Such fears, in the vast majority of cases, are wholly groundless, and in the exceptional instances the insufficiency is generally more seeming than real.

  48. There are some exceptional instances in which the children of intemperate fathers never seem possessed of a desire to use beverages.

  49. Under such exceptional circumstances, therefore, the husband and wife should sleep apart during the first five months of pregnancy.

  50. The actual conditions are not to be determined by taking an exceptional example among the irreligious, but by dividing society as a whole into two classes, and then the result is seen at a glance.

  51. These cases, however, are rather the exception, and so much is involved in marriage that no man or woman can afford to take such serious risks, because exceptional instances do rarely occur.

  52. There are many physicians who have attended hundreds of women in confinement who have never lost but an exceptional case or two.

  53. And, save in exceptional cases, there is but little danger that the wife will be too lenient with her husband.

  54. In exceptional cases the labor may be extended over a day or more, but such cases are relatively rare.

  55. The music critics were almost unanimous in pronouncing the young violinist a player of exceptional merit, and one destined to become a great force in the musical world.

  56. Clara had her familiar part; it was a poor one from every point of view, and the imbecility of the words she had to speak affected her to-night with exceptional irritation.

  57. Robert Hewett is altogether an exceptional being; he is head and shoulders above the men with whom he mixes; he is clever, he is remarkably good-looking.

  58. I have met with exceptional hospitality from the governors of British colonies in many parts of the world.

  59. Individual blacks of exceptional quality, like Frederick Douglas in America, or the Chief Justice of Barbadoes, will avail themselves of opportunities to rise, and the freest opportunities ought to be offered them.

  60. They had no longer, save in exceptional instances, any personal communication with each other.

  61. To these I say that they can expect to lose an occasional nut crop by these late spring frosts, but that only in exceptional cases will the trees suffer permanent injury.

  62. The exceptional bearers in each diameter class also had the highest single nut crops.

  63. It did not occur to him that his father would be returning under circumstances so exceptional that public sentiment might well undergo a radical change in his favor.

  64. It was not enough that Ryder had thrown the weight of his personal influence and exceptional talents on the side of sound morality and civic usefulness.

  65. The susceptibilities and endowments of both accusers and accused were exceptional and yet alike in kind.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exceptional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberrant; abnormal; absolute; anomalous; appalling; astonishing; beguiling; better; bewildering; brilliant; celebrated; certain; choice; concrete; conspicuous; crank; cranky; crotchety; defective; defined; definite; detailed; determinate; different; distinct; distinguished; divergent; eccentric; egregious; eminent; enigmatic; erratic; esoteric; especial; esteemed; estimable; excellent; exceptional; excluding; exclusive; express; extraordinary; extreme; fabulous; fantastic; fantastical; fascinating; fine; fixed; flaky; formidable; freak; freakish; funny; golden; great; idiosyncratic; important; inadmissible; incomprehensible; inconceivable; incredible; indescribable; individual; individualistic; ineffable; inner; insular; intimate; irregular; isolated; kinky; legendary; maggoty; marked; marvelous; mean; memorable; minute; miraculous; mythical; narrow; neat; noble; notable; noteworthy; noticeable; nutty; odd; optimum; ordinary; outlandish; outstanding; parochial; particular; peculiar; personal; phenomenal; portentous; precise; premium; prescriptive; prestigious; preventive; prime; private; prodigious; prohibitive; prominent; psychotic; puzzling; queer; rare; remarkable; rememberable; reputable; respective; restrictive; salient; screwy; select; selective; sensational; several; signal; singular; snobbish; special; specific; splendid; sterling; strange; striking; stupefying; stupendous; superb; superior; superlative; supernatural; telling; terrific; twisted; uncommon; unconventional; unexampled; unforgettable; unimaginable; unique; unnatural; unparalleled; unprecedented; unspeakable; unusual; virtuoso; whimsical; wonderful; wondrous