Example sentences for: excesses

How can you use “excesses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One of the movie's few redeeming features is partially wiped out by one of its worst excesses.

  • His personality not only entertained but also fulfilled a seditious function, taunting the excesses of the wealthy and the absurdities of a structured social system.

  • But given the outrage such excesses generate, advocates would be better off cutting the rich loose and gaining a modicum of redistributive equity for their side of the argument.

  • What really struck me in Skidelsky's account, however, was the extent to which conventional opinion in the 1920s viewed high unemployment as a good thing, a sign that excesses were being corrected and discipline restored--so that even a successful attempt to reflate the economy would be a mistake.

  • Newer to the tourist scene than either Gran Canaria or Tenerife, Lanzarote seems to have learned from the excesses of its sister islands.


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