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
• 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
• Serrano said Goldstone has resumed a part-time schedule that will not exceed 720 hours a year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
• If demand threatens to exceed supply, rotating outages, known as rolling blackouts, may be needed to reduce strain on the grid.
  — Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
• Winds in Portland aren’t expected to exceed 10 mph Wednesday.
  — oregonlive, 27 Dec. 2022
• Their results showed that someone's net worth will likely exceed $1 trillion a lot sooner than most people might think — certainly before the end of the decade.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 26 Dec. 2022
• The order allows the state’s grid operator to exceed certain air pollution limits to boost generation amid record power demand in the state.
  — Time, 24 Dec. 2022
• Last year investment into startups based in Spain’s capital exceeded the sums being channeled to its Mediterranean cousin.
  — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• While the 11-inch screen and sleek design exceed expectations for the price, its limited Appstore and lack of Google Play could be a downside for some.
  — Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024
• These data are useful for assessing settlement density on a regional scale and exceed values recorded in Belize and Guatemala.
  — Anna Lagos, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024