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.
• Both figures exceed federal guidelines on what parents should be paying for child care.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
• This might be where the television medium exceeds the power of orthodoxy to marshal it.
  — Kathryn Reklis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Each speaker is allotted three minutes to speak, meaning the hearing could exceed 20 hours if every witnesses testifies.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• Analysts are often incentivized to follow the company’s narrative, as companies that meet or exceed their forecasts are viewed as more credible by investors.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These costs can add up quickly and could exceed your total monthly car budget.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 14 July 2023
• Bangladesh’s imports from China exceed its exports by more than 10 times, putting huge strain on the country’s reserves.
  — Arun Devnath / Bloomberg, TIME, 3 July 2024
• 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
• Rise of the Resistance is, indeed, highly beloved by Disney Parks visitors — the wait for the ride often exceeds two hours.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 21 June 2024
• 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 series far exceeded initial expectations and earned two Emmy nominations.
  — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024