How to Use exceedingly in a Sentence

exceedingly

adverb
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  • The crime rate is exceedingly high.
  • The weather was exceedingly cold.
  • 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
  • American teenagers in the age of the iPhone are exceedingly well behaved.
    — Jessica Hornik, National Review, 13 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This solid wood unit is well-made and exceedingly stable, Plus, the finish is easy to wipe clean with a damp cloth or paper towel.
    — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The odds that a former president will be jailed before the next election (or, for that matter, at all) are exceedingly low.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
  • The cable landscape in 2023 is exceedingly bleak, and yet amid all this carnage, there’s one big bright spot: Hallmark Channel.
    — Vulture, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In my row in the stands, an exceedingly jovial guard—over-50 and white, with a Jersey accent—took outfit photos for showgoers with their phones.
    — Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Pitchfork, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The film is exceedingly funny, even in translation, right up to the point where the tone shifts dramatically.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
  • In fact the exceedingly rare moments when pols see it in their interest to restrain spending should be treasured and used to advance the public good.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2023
  • This unlikely and exceedingly rare comeback is a message from the warming climate, which baked the region in a years-long megadrought and has now flooded it with rain.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
  • As this year's draft reinforced, attempting to piece together the course of the first round even with just a few days to go can be exceedingly difficult.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Andrews was suddenly in charge of running the Bruins as the primary point guard as part of an exceedingly young cast of teammates.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • And as Democrats will now have to protect yet another seat in an exceedingly difficult Senate map, the question of who may earn the bid to do so is already buzzing.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Their leaves are exceedingly bitter, to the point that almost no one with a sense of smell or taste would willingly consume them, including your cat.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The arduous journey to the surface required each boy to wear a full-face diving mask, be tethered between two divers, and swim for hours through turns and exceedingly tight squeezes.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
  • The seats were plush, vintage but well-preserved, and exceedingly comfortable.
    — Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Yet in many ways, Brand’s reinvention was exceedingly safe.
    — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But one thing is common for the vast majority of US tax filers: Audit rates are exceedingly low.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
  • As the cost of living has skyrocketed, wages have hardly kept pace, and the job market has only looked exceedingly grimmer.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024

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