Example sentences for: transcend

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

  • They represent basic principles of "good government" that transcend administrations, partisan politics, and the issues of the moment.

  • The book ends with a reflection on the argument between "those intellectuals who advocate an organic relationship with the black community and those who aspire to transcend ethnic considerations," suggesting, affably, that the choice must be left, in our individualist culture, for each of us to make for ourselves.

  • His tale is said to transcend the simplistic views of the mogul as either Horatio Alger success story or venal monopolist.

  • These are not, after all, the only options: Some of us who don't want to be the organic intellectuals of the inner city (or of anywhere else) are not disposed simply to "transcend" our racial identities either.

  • You gulp, tell yourself you can transcend the Aristotelian unities, and would move on if Murakami allowed you to.


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