How to Use excel in a Sentence

excel

verb
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  • She excels everyone else in sports.
  • Where are the weak spots, and where will the Fins excel?
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The teams excel at defending both the run and the pass.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Oliver has the size to excel as a press corner and the speed to close when the ball is in the air.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2018
  • And the episode makes a point of noting that both can excel on their own.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
  • Excelled as a left tackle in 2016 but has a lot to learn.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2017
  • This pair of twins excel on the field and in the community.
    — oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Another key to excelling in the red zone comes with the run game.
    — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • Part of what Ellis does right off the field is excel in the classroom.
    — Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 23 Aug. 2017
  • In the same game where one unit excelled, other units would crash and burn.
    — Giana Han, al, 5 Jan. 2020
  • The 4x400 relays Miss Pam excelled running anchor on was the last event of the meet.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • As a child, Cameron excelled in academics and helped run the household.
    — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 30 May 2018
  • There’s a pressure to reinvent, to excel last week’s look, to evolve.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The skills required to excel in a job—even a job that purports to stay the same—evolve greatly as the years pass.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Good teams have an answer and can play lineups that excel on both sides of the ball.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Lots of players who excel at the college level never make the jump to the pros.
    — Jim Geraghty, National Review, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Where Riyadh does excel is the sheer number of places for coffee.
    — Richard Quest, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Few high school teams, frankly, are built to excel versus that unit.
    — Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Vavao not only excels on the field, but also in the classroom.
    — Vytas Mazeika, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
  • The purpose of grades is — or at least should be — to ensure students excel in the long run.
    — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2020
  • This can speed up the process so diverse experts can excel as a team.
    — Csaba Toth, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Fultz has plenty of time to get his bearings and excel.
    — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Austin could also return kicks and excel in the jet sweep game.
    — cleveland, 25 Feb. 2022
  • IU’s defense played well, and its special teams excelled across the board.
    — Zach Osterman, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2017
  • His brother, Trayvon, had excelled at the school before him.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Görges, with a potent first serve and big groundstrokes, has the power tools to excel on grass.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 6 July 2019
  • If there is one thing British people excel at, it’s standing in a line.
    — Time, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And both excel at the art of the sell—themselves and their companies—and the ability to spin the world around their vision of it.
    — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Stephanie excelled in sports at La Jolla High, just like her boys do.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Both would love to excel against their original school of choice.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 24 Sep. 2020

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