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.
  • That puts the county on pace to exceed the record 18 deaths last year.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • He’s on pace to exceed his 200-yard game last week in the first half alone.
    — cleveland, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Drivers will be on the hook for costs that exceed $250.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The cost can exceed $150 a liter — enough to feed a newborn for two days, or a 3-month-old for one.
    — Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • The sports betting measures need to exceed 50% in yes votes to pass.
    — Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 4 May 2022
  • On Sunday, the sources said the cut could exceed 1 million bpd.
    — Reuters, CNN, 2 Oct. 2022
  • All four can approach or exceed 100 pounds and 4-feet in length.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
  • In many cases, though, the payments proposed in the email would far exceed that sum.
    — Chris Cameron, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2025
  • For yearly subscriptions, a price hike can’t exceed $50 and 50% of the old price.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 17 May 2022
  • 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
  • But the number of deaths in 2025 has already exceeded last year’s count.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Her save rate in six matches exceeded Tullis-Joyce’s in 16 games.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Teams can call up players from the minors, even to exceed the 23-player limit. . . .
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In practice, the phones exceed that speed, hitting almost 30W with the right chargers.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Oct. 2022
  • At least nine suicides were reported in the first three months of this year, putting the state on a pace that could exceed last year’s figure.
    — Jennifer Peebles, ajc, 13 May 2022
  • Not when the Blue Jays add Bassitt to a deep rotation and commit, for the first time, to exceed the luxury tax threshold.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The play worked well enough to exceed Miller’s expectations.
    — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 17 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • This rate applies two hours before an event through the end of the event for on-street parking transactions exceeding two hours, according to the city of West Sacramento.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • When water levels are low, the spillway juts out over the dam’s water line, but is activated when the water level exceeds about 440 feet above sea level, per The Los Angeles Times.
    — Toria Sheffield, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025

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