not excessive
Example Sentences
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Webb said: "It would have been incorrect to send him off because it's not excessive force, it's a reckless contact, so yellow card."
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
It’s not excessive — it’s not like 80 and 90 — but some people still want to know what they’re going to get.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
“We further find that the financial sanction to compel compliance was a proper exercise of the court’s discretionary power and was not excessive or otherwise improper,” the appellate panel said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
“Coffee intake, if not excessive, should be safe for bone,” he says, “and if you still have concerns, add milk!”
From Scientific American ● Jan. 4, 2023
After being shut up among mountains and precipices, space and level ground to gallop over are an agreeable change, and in the early morning the heat was not excessive.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
