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Example sentences for "surpass"

Lexicographically close words:
surmounting; surmounts; surname; surnamed; surnames; surpasse; surpassed; surpasses; surpasseth; surpassing
  1. The best time for this view is at sunset, and if the air is clear there are few pictures anywhere in the world to surpass it.

  2. I have become familiar with a good deal of scenery in the past twenty years, but I know few things that can surpass this first view of the sea on the road from Sevastopol to Yalta.

  3. Further south, however, they gradually acquire more importance, until in the peripheral regions of the drift-covered tracts they come to equal and eventually to surpass the boulder-clays in prominence.

  4. Here, the creature surpass the creator,--the end, what began?

  5. Nothing to surpass it, truly, but other volumes equally interesting.

  6. Surely there is nothing else here to surpass what I have just seen.

  7. The university development of the next half- century, the world as a whole considered, may possibly surpass anything that we have recently witnessed.

  8. I greatly fear surpass my poor merits; and which even you will be compelled to retract them when I am better known to you.

  9. To most of these objects, taken singly, it would be easy to find rivals which would equal or surpass them.

  10. Such above all is Lincoln; nothing can surpass the grouping of its three towers, but the effect of the lowness of the choir roof is positively crushing.

  11. But if, in very truth, varieties can be originated that do surpass the best we now have, then both common-sense and self- interest should lead to their general cultivation.

  12. How can we surpass that superb group of berries that prove their excellence year after year?

  13. The gardener, who thus expends a little thought and farsighted labor will at last secure results that will surpass his most sanguine hopes, and that, too, from land that would otherwise be as hard as Pharaoh's heart.

  14. The cool, moist climate of England just suits it, and it is the pride of the gardens of Lancashire to surpass the world in the development of large specimens.

  15. In our beds of each variety there will be a few plants that, for some reason, will surpass all the others in vigor, productiveness, and especially in the manifestation of the peculiar and distinguishing traits of the variety.

  16. If I could create all that the Court of Lions suggested to me for its completion, it would fulfil the dream of King Sheddad, and surpass the palaces of the Moslem Paradise.

  17. No town can surpass this in the grandeur and picturesqueness of its position.

  18. The few mutilated traces which still remain of their power, taste, and refinement, surpass any of the monuments erected by the race which conquered them.

  19. The gentlemen wait on the ladies, and a new contest begins, as each tries to surpass the other in politeness and quickness.

  20. But so far as this divine part surpasses the whole compound nature, so far does its energy surpass the energy which is according to all other virtue.

  21. In the first place, while he was yet with his brother and the other youths, he was a boy, and when he was receiving his education thought to surpass them all in everything.

  22. Nobody could surpass him in choosing a meal inexpensively.

  23. And he, George, with already an immense reputation, would steadily enhance his reputation, which in the end would surpass all others in the profession.

  24. West of these is another group of clear watered hot springs, which surpass all the rest in singularity if not in beauty.

  25. They are often said to be at least as constant as the species itself, and even to surpass it in this quality.

  26. Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa, California, has produced a great many hybrid brambles, the qualities of which in many respects surpass those of the wild species.

  27. The City of Light is simple and monotonous in architecture, but its composition and its radiance quite surpass any earthly conception.

  28. Influenced by the splendid prospects of this undertaking my father determined if possible to surpass it.

  29. The electrical displays on Mars surpass description and the waves of magnetism I am now utilizing to send to you these messages are ten miles in amplitude.

  30. What could Pierre write of his own on Love or any thing else, that would surpass what divine Hafiz wrote so many long centuries ago?

  31. The cows invariably yield milk of great richness, and when appropriately bred, none surpass them for the quantity of butter and cheese it yields.

  32. As a breed, they are excellent milkers; though some families of the Short Horns surpass others in this quality.

  33. Continue thy labours--continue to surpass thine impatience for results until thou canst fathom the causes.

  34. It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

  35. I intend to build me a house which will surpass any on the main street in Concord in grandeur and luxury, as soon as it pleases me as much and will cost me no more than my present one.

  36. But great and marvelous are the works of the Lord, and the mysteries of His kingdom which He showed unto us, which surpass all understanding in glory, and in might, and in dominion, 115.

  37. What could surpass the joy of scoring a century in those long summer days?

  38. But no fiction could surpass the singularity of this withered old magician living with the pale, tiny sprite of a child of mysterious birth in the ghost-haunted rooms of the ancient palace.

  39. After that he went about in the dales, to find men who were good at archery; but though he heard of many with great names, those men proved to be nothing helpful to Rolf, for none could surpass him at all.

  40. But he said: "Would I were the weakest in all Broadfirth dales, if only men might be found to surpass me by so much.

  41. So skilled was he in this that he was called Craggeir, the Cragsman; and no man could surpass him, whether in daring or skill.

  42. Of Rolf's Search for One to Surpass Him with the Bow 109 XII.

  43. And if they surpass thee by no more than a rood, no help is in them for this matter.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surpass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beat; best; better; cap; distance; eclipse; exceed; excel; improve; lead; outdistance; outdo; outstrip; outweigh; overcome; overpass; overreach; overrun; overshoot; overstep; pass; perfect; predominate; preponderate; prevail; shade; shame; shine; strain; surmount; surpass; top; transcend; trump