excess

Example Sentences

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The Spectre is also electric—in the case of the top-spec Black Badge version, extremely electric, with 650 hp to answer the most whispered summons with splendid excess.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

In Germany, excess profits stood at 23.8 million euros per day, followed by France, at 11.6 million euros per day.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

What makes this cake feel alive is not excess.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

This finding is important because it shows that excess cortisol is far more common in these patients than researchers and clinicians previously believed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

Such a bewildering excess of things we had for one single family, and how useless it all seemed now.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver