How to Use surpass in a Sentence

surpass

verb

• Last quarter, sales surpassed two million.
• Attendance is expected to surpass last year's record.
• His work regularly surpasses all expectations.
• But still, the beast has surpassed 270 mph, and that’s impressive as hell.
  — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2024
• The 10-year Treasury yield surpassed its highest level of the year.
  — WSJ, 6 Oct. 2023
• But that number will probably be surpassed in the days and weeks ahead.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Girls are starting to surpass boys in education and in the workplace.
  — TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
• Some of the windiest spots will be along the outer Sunset and Richmond districts, where gusts will briefly surpass 50 mph.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
• Ionescu shot first and scored 26 points, before Curry surpassed her with 29.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024
• Might the team surpass expectations and surprise in 2023?
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• That trend is expected to continue with the market on track to surpass 1 million sales for the first time ever this year.
  — Bret Baier, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The Rams surpassed most expectations and will have a chance to make another Super Bowl run.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• In 2023, streaming surpassed broadcast and cable TV viewing for the first time, according to Nielsen.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Turnout in San Diego County has consistently surpassed the statewide turnout in primaries for more than a decade.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
• With Durant out, Bol surpassed his season numbers – 11 points and nine rebounds in 20 minutes – in one game.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2024
• The city’s homicide toll surpassed 200 before October this year for the first time in a quarter century.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Some areas could see rainfall rates Sunday up to 1 inch per hour, and rainfall totals by the end of Monday could surpass 2 inches.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
• Widespread support poured in for Watts as the news made headlines, including a GoFundMe that surpassed its goal on the fundraising platform.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 12 Jan. 2024
• Sales of the shoes, Yeezys, would surpass $1 billion a year, lifting Adidas’s bottom line and recapturing its cool.
  — Megan Twohey, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The mass dolphin deaths come as the water temperatures have surpassed a record-breaking 102 Fahrenheit in the region amid a severe drought.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
• Twenty-nine people believed to be homeless have died outside in Anchorage so far in 2023, far surpassing last year’s grim record — with five months left to go in the year.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• The daily bustle of Ontario's buzzing capital is surpassed only by its nightlife.
  — Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
• The greatest mass measurements surpass well over 7 inches.
  — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2024
• Musk, Bezos, and company each surpassed that threshold long ago.
  — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
• Throughout her career, the richness of O’Connor’s music was often surpassed by the vehemence and scorch of her politics.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
• Starship's second full-scale test flight on November 18 surpassed SpaceX's goals going into the launch.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2024
• Gunfire now the leading cause of death for children, surpassing car accidents.
  — ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Scott has been the top-spending candidate on the airwaves so far this month, but two other outside groups have surpassed other groups and candidates on the airwaves.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
• For your kindness that somehow surpasses even your coolness, for your drive, your creativity, your A+ stink-eye and your smart-ass sense of humor.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
• Eig’s balanced treatment of King turns an icon back into a man—and produces a biography that will be very difficult to surpass.
  — Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024