Excessively

//ɪkˈsɛsɪvli//

"Excessively" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Avoid smoking excessively.

Exposing skin excessively to the sun causes sunburn, sometimes blisters.

His style (if you were to call it that) was excessively (though I run the risk of hypocrisy) parenthetical (pardon the pun).

There are plenty of examples of people who do these things “excessively”, but no-one says those are “addictions”.

She smokes excessively.

He worries excessively on the eve of exams.

No single company should have over 10 billion dollars in assets. Now is the time to require the break-up of excessively large companies, in the same way as and for the same reason that Theodore Roosevelt broke up the trusts and monopolies.

I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling. They are excessively unpleasant.

I began to study English when I was twelve years of age. At that time I was interested in languages, but not excessively so. Now I can speak English, French, Spanish and Portuguese; and so it is time to learn Latin.

I do not like the habit certain tennis players have when they bounce the ball excessively before serving, especially on important points. Bouncing the ball more than, say, 10 times should be penalised for deliberately delaying the play.

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The application form was excessively complicated.

While Rabbit is described by Milne as being excessively “captainish” or bossy, he also receives warm praise, he has frequent visits from Pooh.

He smoked excessively.

Acidotic animals go off their feed, pant and salivate excessively, paw and scratch their bellies, and eat dirt.

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