Example sentences for: excessive

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

  • [ 10 ] . The obesity found in these mice is due to excessive food intake and this phenotype along with increased plasma levels of insulin and leptin is analogous to Type 2 diabetes.

  • The other puzzle is the incoherence of Clinton's critics, punctuated by DeLay's bizarre complaint that Clinton has 1) "hollowed out our forces while he's running around having these adventures all over the world"; and 2) fallen short of "victory" in Kosovo by using "excessive rhetoric supported by underwhelming force" in a conflict involving "no strategic interest of the United States."

  • Many insured families have inadequate child benefits, excessive costs, or periods without coverage.

  • These manifestations are due to the excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins, predominantly type I collagen, in the affected tissues [ 2].

  • In the Gaelic parts of Scotland and Ireland, the word for heather was fraoch , pronounced nearly like German fröch . There are many regional differences in Gaelic, and fraoch can be pronounced “FREWX” or “FRAWX” in some parts of Gaeldom, perhaps explaining some of the spellings that have come into English for health-related words like frawlin or fraughan for blueberry, and freuchan for the “reinforcing toe cap of a brogue” (shoe, not accent) to prevent excessive wear by the heather.


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