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
• The city is on pace to reach or surpass the record 92 homicides that occurred in Portland last year.
  — oregonlive, 19 Oct. 2022
• In the end, that surpasses any complaints the players might have.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
• This news caused a drop in the marque’s stock, which opened the door for Arnault to surpass Musk in Forbes rankings.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2022
• But that number will probably be surpassed in the days and weeks ahead.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Orion will surpass that distance on its 11th day of the mission on Nov. 26.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
• In June, Nvidia briefly surpassed Apple in total market cap and crossed the $3 trillion threshold for the first time.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 9 Oct. 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
• Boise also has a chance to equal or surpass the record for consecutive days of 105 or hotter.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 July 2024
• The United States has work to do to ensure that China won’t surpass us in power exerted on the world stage.
  — Bobby Miller, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
• And to become the world's largest oil producer at the time, Texas would have needed to do more than surpass Saudi Arabia.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2022
• In 2022, the country was surpassed by India as the world’s most populous nation.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
• The company surpassed the street estimates in the second quarter of FY 2024.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• 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
• There was never any intention of trying to improve on it or surpass it in any way.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 3 May 2024
• But with few votes left to count, Lake's path to surpass Hobbs appeared impossible.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• And those bursts surpass the barrage unleashed in 1989 that crippled the Hydro-Québec power grid, researchers now know.
  — Katherine Kornei, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 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
• With the final burst in Georgia, the total for this year’s midterm might surpass the spending in the last presidential cycle.
  — WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
• At 8 years old, Howie the crab has surpassed her species’ typical life expectancy.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
• Space weather forecasters do not expect the latest solar storm to surpass the one that slammed Earth in May, which was the strongest in more than 20 years.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2024
• The Rams surpassed most expectations and will have a chance to make another Super Bowl run.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• With 39 previous wins, including a personal best of 10 last year, Swift could surpass Drake for most wins of all-time.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
• If Singapore is going to surpass Hong Kong as a financial hub, core to its strategy is wealth management.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024