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Example sentences for: excessive
How can you use “excessive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
There is something unseemly about this excessive security, and something undemocratic.
The cover story profiles Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, whose excessive rationality is good news for America.
But hype itself means "intentional excess to create attention" ( Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications ), implying that the normal level is by definition excessive.
Reviews since 1995 have found evidence of shoddy accounting, poor morale, excessive staff turnover, and double counting of cases - and alleged that the office made limited efforts to rectify the problems.
The anomaly of this prodigal use of language that would once have been generally regarded as unacceptably obscene is that, even today, it in no way coincides with the usage of the great majority of the audience--any more than did the excessive puritanism of the old production code.
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