How to Use exceed in a Sentence

exceed

verb

• He's trying to match or exceed last year's sales.
• The demand for new housing has already exceeded the supply.
• The cost exceeded our estimate.
• The cost must not exceed 10 dollars.
• But the past few times the list has opened, demand far exceeded that number.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Her save rate in six matches exceeded Tullis-Joyce’s in 16 games.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• With the escalating rent, payments would exceed $92 million over the next three and a half decades.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
• The city is expected to exceed 192 slayings this year, which has not been eclipsed in several years.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2023
• Here are five highlights from the brisk album (only three songs exceed three minutes).
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
• The extreme pressures in that region exceed the limits of most plastics.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• These costs can add up quickly and could exceed your total monthly car budget.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 14 July 2023
• Though the Rams' young defense has exceeded expectations this season, the secondary is in need of this kind of talent.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
• The value of Girl Scout Cookies, for our family, at this time, doesn’t exceed their compounding cost.
  — Darnell Mayberry | , cleveland, 29 July 2023
• And the number of jobs added to the economy exceeded expectations.
  — Gina Raimondo, CBS News, 3 Sep. 2023
• The increase was the biggest since July 2021 and exceeded all forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
  — Augusta Saraiva, Fortune, 8 June 2023
• Estimates are shaky, but perhaps three- quarters of the nation’s Wide Awakes fought in the war, exceeding the 50 percent of Northern men who served.
  — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
• The $40 fine is triggered after exceeding the speed limit by 12 miles per hour, and then increases based on speed, according to the bill.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• Oceanside’s general plan states that the downtown district should not exceed a total of 5,500 dwellings.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• Passports and identification cards must be handed to police but the process shouldn’t exceed six months, according to the law.
  — Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Overall, this vibrant show topped, exceeded and eclipsed the one Buffett delivered here in 2001.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2023
• That would exceed the 3.5% year-over-year increase that is widely seen as consistent with the Fed’s 2% inflation target.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
• The cost of this strike could exceed $3 billion, and consumers will likely feel the ripple effects quickly, from stale content to higher streaming prices.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Under the current measures, vessels cannot exceed a maximum draft of 44 feet.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Results were completely turned around within four months, and within nine months, the site had exceeded its all-time traffic and revenue records.
  — David Klein, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• The agency also alleged that Walker broke overtime laws by not paying at least nine workers time-and-a-half for labor exceeding 40 hours in a week.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 20 June 2023
• The water temperature on the tip of Florida hit hot tub levels, exceeding 100 degrees two days in a row.
  — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
• City guidelines generally call for the giant balloons to be grounded if there are sustained winds above 23 miles per hour, or if gusts exceed 34 m.p.h.
  — Winnie Hu Emma Rose Milligan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Israeli authorities have said the death toll exceeds 700, many of which were civilians — women, children, and the elderly.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2023
• This is because South Korea requires that they be tested on both adults and children, and many KF94 masks often exceed a 95% filtration rate.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
• Vaccine exemptions exceeded 5% in ten states and increased in 41 states.
  — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024