How to Use exceedingly in a Sentence

exceedingly

adverb
  • The crime rate is exceedingly high.
  • The weather was exceedingly cold.
  • 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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