Example sentences for: surpass

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

  • With the appropriate services, people can surpass what's expected of them."

  • The result, as the Justice Department would have predicted, is a robustly competitive magazine market in which Time and Newsweek actually, in some ways, surpass Slate . Circulation, revenue, ad pages, and profitability are a few of the dimensions in which, quite frankly, we are somewhat behind, although we lead in other important measures such as number of readers with Slate -logo umbrellas.

  • The New Yorker loses money--how much may even surpass perks as a topic of Newhouse gossip and speculation.

  • It will be hard for a poet to surpass the poise and penetration of Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush," which is dated as being composed on the last evening of the 19 th century.

  • The Writer's Guide contains a huge amount of useful information, and if one does not already have a style manual, it might be as good as another, though many would argue that nothing could equal (let alone surpass) the Chicago Manual of Style .


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