Excess

//ˈɛksɛs//

"Excess" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Don't carry anything to excess.

Exercise, if carried to excess, will do you more harm than good.

The load of the truck was in excess of three tons.

In this season we often suffer from an excess of rain.

Never spend in excess of your income.

You shouldn't eat to excess.

Don't eat to excess.

Kindness in excess is too much of a good thing.

Working to excess will do you harm.

He tends to do everything to excess.

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The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, […] Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy.

[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.

The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.

Fair Angel, thy desire . . . . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame

In 2006, I was excessed because my program had to make a few cuts and a new, inexperienced supervisor decided that he couldn’t handle a knowledgeable older teacher so he removed me.

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