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Example sentences for "excess"

Lexicographically close words:
excerpt; excerpta; excerpted; excerpts; exces; excesse; excesses; excessiue; excessive; excessively
  1. And through it all he was conscious of the same vivid energetic creature, disposing with some difficulty and fracas of its own excess of nervous life.

  2. One is got by digesting the plant in water or other solvent, and evaporating or distilling away the excess of solvent until the extracted matter is sufficiently inspissated.

  3. Munitions Levy' is the counterpart of Excess Profits Duty in its application to Government-controlled establishments for the production of munitions of war.

  4. So again, women generally tend either to an excess of the external, to superstition; or of the emotional, to fanaticism.

  5. Men, on the contrary, appear generally to incline to an excess of the intellectual, to rationalism and indifference.

  6. Let us look then first to where such diversities grow unchecked, and indeed generally tend to excess and caricature.

  7. In India and Tibet, again, Brahmanism and Buddhism may be said to have divided these three elements between them, the former representing as great an excess of the external as Buddhism does of abstruse reasoning and pessimistic emotion.

  8. It was open to William Blake, surely an indubitable Englishman, to establish the English national motto: "The Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom.

  9. Fernie remarks that when uncooked parsley has been eaten to excess it has been observed to produce epilepsy in certain bodily systems.

  10. Eaten to excess potatoes are apt to cause dullness and laziness.

  11. They are polite and well brought up, falling even into the excess of exaggerated courtesy.

  12. It seems to me that the Turks have room before them, and that the Middle Ages were not suffering precisely from an excess of population when they presented everywhere the spectacle of anarchy and oppression.

  13. If in ordinary cases feeding the sow three times daily is persisted in, the same quantity of food given should simply be distributed over the three feedings, as an excess of food is only less a mistake than underfeeding.

  14. Unfortunately, so many dairymen do not study the requirements of the pig, and imagine that it will give a good return from an excess of liquid in the form of whey.

  15. At this moment Maria came from the kitchen with the good intention to terminate the affair; but she occasioned that which happens to a great many: excess of zeal spoiled all.

  16. This excess of maternal love scandalizes him.

  17. Excess of astonishment kept Odo silent for a moment; and in that moment he had as it were a fugitive glimpse into the workings of the great power which still strove for predominance in Italy.

  18. It is said that when Margaret arrived and met her father, she was so much agitated by the news, and by the hopes which it awakened in her bosom, that, in embracing him, she burst into tears from the excess of her excitement and joy.

  19. Somerset, in the excess of his precaution, had returned to London by land, leaving Lady Neville to return by herself in the boat with the other passengers; for the boat was a sort of packet which plied regularly between the village and London.

  20. The oxygen and hydrogen that are not accounted for in the sum of the products have not disappeared in the precise proportions requisite to form water; the excess of hydrogen amounts to as many as from 13 to 15 dwts.

  21. But, as in the case of the Mexicans and all others of the brown race, this excess is not the fault alone of the drinker.

  22. At this, fear fell on the people of the city and they crowded to my father and said to him; 'What is this awful voice that we have heard and that has confounded us with the excess of its terror?

  23. After awhile, there came up the officers, who put chains round their necks and round mine amongst the rest, but in the excess of my courtesy, I kept silence and did not speak, nor was this other than generosity on my part.

  24. At this the Khalif was agitated and so overcome with emotion that he was not master of himself for excess of delight, and he exclaimed, 'By Allah, it is good!

  25. Down fell the hunchback, whilst the broker called to the watchman of the market and fell on the dead man, pummelling and throttling him in the excess of his drunken rage.

  26. And I well-nigh gave up the ghost for excess of rage against him.

  27. So I ascended the stair, but, in the excess of my fear I forgot my sandals and hatchet.

  28. So saying, he threw himself on him and they embraced and wept for excess of joy.

  29. But he had no tongue wherewith to answer her, for excess of beating and toil.

  30. So I arose and took stock and found I was worth two thousand dinars increase, in excess of capital, wherefore I praised the Divine Creator and gave my brother a thousand dinars, with which he opened a shop.

  31. When I heard this, the world grew black in my eyes, and I rose and shut my shop and went home, beside myself for excess of rage.

  32. I have let thee see how it is with me for the excess of my passion for thee; so come now, leave what has been and take thy will of me.

  33. Then he wept, for excess of longing, and bemoaned the injustice and hostility of Fortune (Glory be to Him who occupies hearts with love!

  34. Jaafer could make no answer for excess of confusion, and the Khalif continued, 'I wonder how these people came hither and who admitted them into my pavilion!

  35. Then he made the slaves strip off my clothes and hold me down, and taking a rod of quince-wood beat me with it on the back and sides till I lost my senses for excess of pain and despaired of life.

  36. From various facts given by White of Selbourne,[381] it seems clear that the males of the partridge must be in considerable excess in the south of England; and I have been assured that this is the case in Scotland.

  37. So it would be with polygamous species, if we assume the excess of females to be inordinately great.

  38. So that with sheep at the age of castration the females are certainly in excess of the males; but whether this would hold good at birth is doubtful, owing to the greater liability in the males to early death.

  39. From the variability of all characters, we may feel assured that some pairs, inhabiting any locality, would produce a rather smaller excess of superfluous males, but an equal number of productive females.

  40. I cannot however persuade myself that these causes suffice to explain the great excess of males in the cases, above given, of butterflies which are extremely common in their native countries.

  41. An alarmist by nature, an aristocrat by party, he carried to an unreasonable excess his horror of popular turbulence.

  42. And so, in politics, it is the sure law that every excess shall generate its opposite; nor does he deserve the name of a statesman who strikes a great blow without fully calculating the effect of the rebound.

  43. There is always something wanting," and her voice fell with those sad inflections that are often only the very excess of delight.

  44. She was speechless with excess of feeling, but she pointed to the Alamo.

  45. The chief constituents of all clays are alumina and silica, the latter being always in excess of the former.

  46. Vogt has stated that small quantities of alumina promote the formation of a glassy structure, and Morozewicz has shown that a large excess of this substance must be present if crystallization is to occur.

  47. In addition, many of them represent excess capacity which should be destroyed because they originated solely for the exploitation of a forbidden weapon.

  48. There is every reason, for world peace, to eliminate such excess plants.

  49. Further analysis showed that the mixture of air and gas examined revealed a concentration of gas greatly in excess of the point of saturation for the vapour given off by this stuff.

  50. The factories of the latter represent explosives and poison gas capacity far in excess of the authorised needs of the German Army.

  51. The plants in question are therefore all in excess of authorised production, and should be destroyed or rendered useless.

  52. The most formidable examples of such excess production were, and remain, the nitrogen fixation and the nitric acid plants of the I.

  53. In any case, a large excess is now deliberately used to recapture world chemical markets, and this, as explained above, should be dealt with under the Treaty even if special immunity be afforded the capacity required for home purposes.

  54. In any case, Allied Governments have already wisely adopted a dye industry policy inconsistent with the special Treaty immunity of the excess I.

  55. This, Waldron continues, "was formerly carried to excess on the stage, though now a good deal disused.

  56. However, his mind was soon at ease; to do him justice the audience soon hissed him to his heart's content, and perhaps even in excess of that measure.

  57. By their grave simplicity an English official was inspired to a pretty compliment, as he toiled through some red-tape Census Report with much talk of “excess of females” in the Nair population.

  58. They could never be accused,” he reported with mock indignation, “of an ‘excess of females.

  59. There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.

  60. I prefer a tendency to stateliness, to an excess of fellowship.

  61. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.

  62. The excess of light would result only in blinding them.

  63. You are too good to wish to understand me; but the excess of your goodness weighs me down and frightens me.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; abundance; amplification; balance; ballyhoo; burlesque; caricature; dilation; dispensable; drunkenness; embarrassment; enhancement; enlargement; exaggeration; excess; excessive; exorbitance; expansion; expletive; extra; extravagance; extreme; extremism; extremity; flood; flow; give; glut; gluttony; grandiloquence; gratuitous; great; heightening; huckstering; hyperbole; hypertrophy; impropriety; inappropriateness; incontinence; indulgence; inflation; intemperance; inundation; leftover; magnification; much; needless; nonessential; overemphasis; overgrowth; overmuch; overpass; overplus; overrun; prodigality; profit; profligacy; prolix; radicalism; redundancy; redundant; remainder; residue; rest; sensationalism; spare; stretching; superabundant; supererogatory; superfluity; superfluous; superiority; superlative; supplementary; surfeit; surplus; travesty; unessential; unnecessary; unneeded; unreasonableness; unrestraint; verbose


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    excess mortality; excessive amount