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"Surpassing" in a Sentence (12 examples)
Surpassing labour intensive, capital intensive, the age has shifted greatly to knowledge intensive.
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; you have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of a woman.
Japan is surpassing China in economic power.
"Fourteen nymphs are in my service, surpassing in comeliness, of whom Deiopea, the most beautiful, I will unite in steadfast marriage to you and declare her your own; that in exchange for such benefits she may dwell with you all her years, and make you the father of beautiful offspring."
A Nielsen survey showed health became the top concern of Vietnamese citizens in the second quarter, surpassing job security, cost of living, and work-life balance.
A Florida man who currently occupies the White House told over 8,100 falsehoods and deliberately misleading claims in 2019, surpassing his total of nearly 7,700 lies during the previous two years combined.
The jet suit has an altitude limit of 3,658 meters, easily surpassing the height of the Lake District’s—and Britain’s—highest peak of 978 meters.
This may be a case of the student surpassing the teacher.
No statue hewn of marble in monumental effigy was ever half so fair; and within that surpassing form dwelt a soul true, tender, self-devoted, and affectionate as ever warmed a human breast.
Medieval Islamic civilization saved countless ancient Greek and Roman texts and continued their work, surpassing it and laying more of the foundations for modern science.
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"Yet once again," exclaimed he, passionately, "let me gaze on that beautiful and beloved face! let me see if sorrow has cast a shadow on its surpassing loveliness! I will not let her know how near I am, and how wretched! No, in secret and in silence will I look upon her once more; and then, farewell for ever!"
In both of these surpassings, the human being, in being freed, is freed both to be itself and to be beyond itself; but the second orients us more fully towards being free beyond self-determination.
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