Example sentences for: excessively

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

  • But the newspaper's practical advice to the public seemed excessively relaxed under the circumstances, saying merely that flu symptoms include fevers and chills and can take as much as two weeks to recover from.

  • If you differ with me on this, it would have been appropriate for you to say: "Novick is excessively tolerant of invocations of the Holocaust which I and many others think quite intolerable."

  • While conceding these factors were at work, they insisted that much of the slump had far shallower roots--that it was the avoidable consequence of an excessively conservative monetary policy, one preoccupied with conventional standards of soundness when what the economy really needed was to roll the printing presses.

  • Did Edelstein read Janet Maslin's review in the Friday, June 5, New York Times ? In her review, Maslin acknowledges the mania surrounding The Truman Show (in the first paragraph, no less) and concludes that, while it is a good film, it has been lauded excessively by critics.

  • Colloquial Hebrew is excessively economical, and its shortcuts have been further abbreviated by the numerous acronyms used throughout the armed forces.


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