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.
• He’s on pace to exceed his 200-yard game last week in the first half alone.
  — cleveland, 24 Dec. 2022
• Drivers will be on the hook for costs that exceed $250.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
• All four can approach or exceed 100 pounds and 4-feet in length.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
• But the past few times the list has opened, demand far exceeded that number.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The near doubling of the ADU fee and the 34 percent fee increase for a house far exceed the inflation rate.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2024
• But had the suit gone to trial, there could have been a potential price tag that far exceeds that.
  — Justine Kenin, NPR, 30 May 2024
• And the West End project will require a zoning variance to exceed the parcels’ 65-foot height limit.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The new five-year agreement will not exceed $9.75 million.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2024
• Her save rate in six matches exceeded Tullis-Joyce’s in 16 games.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• Teams can call up players from the minors, even to exceed the 23-player limit. . . .
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• Not when the Blue Jays add Bassitt to a deep rotation and commit, for the first time, to exceed the luxury tax threshold.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Some expect case numbers to soon exceed last summer’s high, but not the all-time high of Omicron’s first wave.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2023
• Art begins in the body; art is limited by the limitations of the body; at some point, art exceeds the body and can live beyond the scope of flesh.
  — Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• Tailfin states that the loads shouldn’t exceed three kilograms per side for trail riding, or five kilograms for on road use.
  — Matt Beer, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2022
• The city is expected to exceed 192 slayings this year, which has not been eclipsed in several years.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2023
• Profits between the time the scandal broke and the settlement exceeded that amount.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2024
• Here are five highlights from the brisk album (only three songs exceed three minutes).
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
• At the time of that launch, first-year sales projections were expected to exceed $10 million.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 6 Sep. 2024
• Then there’s the looming threat of the Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake – the most powerful of its kind, with magnitudes that can exceed 9.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
• The extreme pressures in that region exceed the limits of most plastics.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
• But at both Bawah and Elang, activities on, in and under water far exceed those on land.
  — Anna Prendergast, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2022
• Our gun deaths exceed a 747 crashing every week and killing everyone on board.
  — Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• These costs can add up quickly and could exceed your total monthly car budget.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 14 July 2023
• Aside from Friday’s game, there have been seven other matchups to exceed 13M viewers, with several weeks left in the regular season.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
• The company also earned 11 cents per share which, with revenue, modestly exceeded Wall Street expectations.
  — Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 19 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024