How to Use exceedingly in a Sentence
exceedingly
adverb- The crime rate is exceedingly high.
- The weather was exceedingly cold.
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Namely, the heat can make many of us exceedingly cranky and, in some cases, downright angry.
— Hannah Smothers, SELF, 26 July 2022 -
The interiors are exceedingly stylish, with rich wood and crisp cream textiles.
— Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2024 -
None have come close to the mass destruction of the Oak Fire, due in part to the exceedingly dry conditions in the area, Wade said.
— Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 26 July 2022 -
Powell conceded that predicting what happens next — a soft landing or a hard one — is exceedingly difficult.
— Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022 -
Baker had made enough contacts in café society and foreign embassies to be exceedingly useful to France and Britain.
— Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 29 July 2022 -
Someone who isn’t deterred by reputational blowback or the exceedingly high risk of a bold hypothesis being proved wrong.
— Andréa Morris, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Date Lab has always been an exceedingly personal window into people’s lives — and the more people have been willing to share with us, the better the column.
— Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 July 2022 -
Small modular reactors have been promoted as avoiding many of the problems that have made large nuclear plants exceedingly expensive to build.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 July 2022 -
Even with support, the burden of traveling for care is exceedingly difficult or even impossible to overcome for some families.
— Emma Chinn, Them, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Apple-1 Computers are already exceedingly rare since the company only made about 200 of them.
— Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 July 2022 -
Broad swaths of ocean all around the globe also are exceedingly warm.
— Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024 -
In the end, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a straight shot of joy, the kind of balm needed in a time when delight is in exceedingly short supply.
— Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024 -
But to be a high school coach one year and a major-college head coach the next is exceedingly rare.
— Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 30 Nov. 2022 -
Stock in the fast-food chain is exceedingly less volatile than the broader market with a beta of 0.71.
— Brian Evans, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024 -
American teenagers in the age of the iPhone are exceedingly well behaved.
— Jessica Hornik, National Review, 13 July 2023 -
The rooms are on the smaller side, but still exceedingly cozy and comfortable.
— Rachel King, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2022 -
Kimes has been able to do something that is exceedingly rare in our business.
— Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023 -
The assortment includes race cars that have circled some of the world’s finest race tracks, as well as an exceedingly rare coupé once owned by a king.
— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 June 2023 -
And an exceedingly rare example of the latter just went up for sale.
— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2022 -
The Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain in the outbreak is exceedingly rare and had never before been seen in the U.S.
— Alexander Tin, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023 -
It just gets scrambled up into some form that’s exceedingly hard to read.
— Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024 -
When testing, food in contact with the cast-iron grates browned exceedingly well, the corn, in particular, had a nice char.
— Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023 -
There will be no exceedingly heavy bejeweled crowns, no anointing of the monarch with holy oil behind a screen.
— Karla Adam, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024 -
None of this is evidence of fraud, which is exceedingly rare.
— BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022 -
For example, if the first shot at the profile seems overly dry and perhaps exceedingly lengthy, just say so in your next prompt.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023 -
Even though Trumpism is his hook, Heilbrunn spends exceedingly few pages on the subject.
— Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024 -
But there are two fatal flaws to this exceedingly cunning plan.
— Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Feb. 2024 -
Today, bicycles known to have been made by the Wright brothers are exceedingly rare—in fact, as few as five are known to exist.
— Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
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