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
  • The Rockets are an exceedingly young team and had five 19-year-olds on the roster to start the season.
    — Kristie Rieken, Chron, 13 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • But to be a high school coach one year and a major-college head coach the next is exceedingly rare.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 30 Nov. 2022
  • None have come close to the mass destruction of the Oak Fire, due in part to the exceedingly dry conditions in the area, Wade said.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 26 July 2022
  • There are exceedingly few of these parishes around the world, and Francis barred the creation of new ones.
    — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 18 Dec. 2021
  • This may be one of the reasons that shootings are exceedingly rare in Japan.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2022
  • But, at the Sharq, the Kabul team found that the Taliban were exceedingly stubborn.
    — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Stock in the fast-food chain is exceedingly less volatile than the broader market with a beta of 0.71.
    — Brian Evans, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
  • American teenagers in the age of the iPhone are exceedingly well behaved.
    — Jessica Hornik, National Review, 13 July 2023
  • The rooms are on the smaller side, but still exceedingly cozy and comfortable.
    — Rachel King, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Kimes has been able to do something that is exceedingly rare in our business.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Three-peats are exceedingly rare in sports, not just in hockey.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
  • The second booster drops the risk from exceedingly small to … even smaller.
    — al, 4 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • And an exceedingly rare example of the latter just went up for sale.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The trouble is that marine fossils from that era are exceedingly difficult to find in most parts of the world.
    — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • The quaint term belies the exceedingly hazardous nature of their work.
    — Siddharth Kara, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • None of this is evidence of fraud, which is exceedingly rare.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • An exceedingly rare version of a luxury icon is about to hit the auction block.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Namely, the heat can make many of us exceedingly cranky and, in some cases, downright angry.
    — Hannah Smothers, SELF, 26 July 2022
  • The stakes are exceedingly high, and the process is tremendously difficult.
    — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • That went double for the exceedingly lucky few who crammed into the 500-capacity venue.
    — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025

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