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Example sentences for "exceeds"

Lexicographically close words:
exceede; exceeded; exceedeth; exceeding; exceedingly; excel; excelente; excell; excelled; excellence
  1. In size and population it exceeds every town I have yet visited, except Toronto and Hamilton.

  2. I do not fail to spend some part of every day in the kitchen garden, where the quantity of small fruit exceeds anything you can form an idea of.

  3. Though I venture to differ occasionally from your critique, yet I assure you the quantum of your commendation rather exceeds than falls short of the author's expectation and my own.

  4. The line of hillocks skirting the right bank of the Loire, and known as the sillon de Bretagne, scarcely exceeds 250 ft.

  5. This metal is inferior to Silver in point of gravity; nor is its ductility so great, though it be pretty considerable: but, on the other hand, it exceeds that metal in hardness.

  6. Tin ores are not sulphureous; whence it comes, that though tin be the lightest of all metals, its ores are nevertheless heavier than those of other metals, as arsenic greatly exceeds sulphur in gravity.

  7. In the process we have described the marks which shew the heat to be neither too strong nor too weak; when it exceeds in either of these respects it may be known by the following signs.

  8. If the net profit of the company exceeds 4½ per cent.

  9. If the value exceeds that sum the premium payable is the same as for animals, with a minimum of 3d.

  10. Dr Phinuit's medical knowledge really exceeds what Mrs Piper might have read in a manual of domestic medicine.

  11. As far as the diagnosis is concerned, his knowledge assuredly exceeds this.

  12. In fact, the feather merchants themselves state that the demand for Terns and Gulls exceeds the supply.

  13. It usually lasts three days, but if it exceeds that time it becomes insupportable.

  14. A mortar discharged on land, exceeds in range the same description of gun on board of ship, or on the best-constructed platform.

  15. As a substitute for grooves, the interior of the barrel is cut into the form of an ellipse, whose major axis exceeds the minor by .

  16. We can, at this period, far excel them, for the pupil sometimes exceeds the tutor; but this arises from laying firmly the foundation of a superior system.

  17. The extent of their pipes exceeds one hundred and fifty miles.

  18. Where any intermediate sum lent on a pledge exceeds 2s.

  19. The length of the tail exceeds that of the body.

  20. In the skull the cranial portion exceeds the facial.

  21. The being whose strength exceeds its necessities= 25 =is strong; the being whose necessities exceed its strength is feeble.

  22. That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveller exceeds that which is got by reading.

  23. Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

  24. To-day, the tonnage of a single vessel of the fleet exceeds that of the four; the total tonnage has risen to many times that above given.

  25. In fact, they are usually given a somewhat higher ratio, and their economy of fuel frequently exceeds that of the other types.

  26. In any case in which the total heat expended exceeds that due the production of work on external bodies, the excess so supplied is so much added to the intrinsic energy of the substance absorbing it.

  27. The whole number of volcanoes known to be active at the present time exceeds three hundred; and doubtless many times that number have long since become extinct.

  28. In fact, the learned professions have yet to learn that the supply exceeds the demand.

  29. It would seem that the supply of professional men in this country exceeds the demand.

  30. If the space exceeds a certain ratio, the resulting texture is loose and open in appearance and of little value for ordinary clothing purposes.

  31. The usual kinds of merino yarns used for underwear are folded two-ply, with a slack twist which seldom exceeds more than a few turns per inch.

  32. The prodigious loss to us, and gain to England, by selling them all our wool at their own rates; whereof the manufacture exceeds above ten times the prime cost: A proceeding without example in the Christian or heathen world.

  33. The impudence of this remark exceeds all that went before.

  34. In the next age Boileau allotted to him a mixture of praise and blame which is not too apposite, but in which the praise far exceeds the blame, and elsewhere declared him to be the French writer, before Moliere, who best knew human nature.

  35. Jodelle was a voluminous writer, but his dramatic importance so far exceeds his merely poetical value that he will be best treated of when we come to discuss the Theatre of the Renaissance.

  36. Taxation of the general synod for parliamentary purposes needs the assent of the minister of state, and must, if it exceeds four per cent.

  37. The work which she did, in spite of her physical fragility, far exceeds what the majority of us perform with stronger bodies and longer lives.

  38. As the number of stars to be named in several constellations exceeds the number of letters in the Greek alphabet, Bayer had recourse, after the Greek alphabet was exhausted, to letters of the Roman alphabet.

  39. At the present time our greatest distance from the sun exceeds our least distance by its thirtieth part, but the difference is not usually so small as this.

  40. The body of it seldom exceeds a yard in circumference, is full of branches, the twigs of which are short and blunt, and its leaves resemble those of the walnut.

  41. Moose deer are to be found in great plenty, and likewise the carribboo; whose skin for breeches or gloves exceeds by far any other to be met with in North-America.

  42. When the Indians succeed in their silent approaches, and are able to force the camp which they attack, a scene of horror, that exceeds description, ensues.

  43. They are so expeditious in doing this, that the whole time required scarcely exceeds a minute.

  44. The ELK greatly exceeds the deer in size, being in bulk equal to a horse.

  45. The angular distance of its vertex from the sun is frequently seventy or eighty degrees, while sometimes, though rarely (except within the tropics), it exceeds even one hundred degrees.

  46. The latter, however, in all probability, exceeds the former by several years.

  47. That the quantity of new nails, taken from the public repositories, and from private workshops, and disposed of at the old iron shops exceeds all credibility.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exceeds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.