EXCESSIVE in a Sentence

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When they swam she enjoyed the freshness of the water but she was irritated by Cy's tricks, by Dave's excessive good spirits.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXCESSIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
excessive
 a.  extreme; inordinate; too much
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  It is probable that he, also, was disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of everything, something excessive.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
2  An excessive emotion was required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
3  The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
4  Not going to bed would have seemed to him excessive and familiar.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
5  They dreamed of engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
6  Theodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible sequel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
7  First love is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy be allowed to overflow, it will stifle you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
8  I say, sire, that my health is sinking under these excessive struggles and these never-ending labors.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
9  Anxious as he was to avoid personal notice, he took, in the printed mention of his name, a pleasure so exquisite and excessive that it seemed a compensation for his shrinking from publicity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
10  Her dread of returning to a sleepless night was so great that she lingered on, hoping that excessive weariness would reinforce the waning power of the chloral.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
11  When they swam she enjoyed the freshness of the water but she was irritated by Cy's tricks, by Dave's excessive good spirits.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  Had these Leviathans been but a flock of simple sheep, pursued over the pasture by three fierce wolves, they could not possibly have evinced such excessive dismay.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
13  "Perhaps I feared to make Alphonse jealous," she interjoined, with excessive naivete.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
14  The excessive physical charm of the Creole had first attracted her, for Edna had a sensuous susceptibility to beauty.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
15  She grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
16  Heavy rain and excessive use would impoverish the soil.
17  Such idolatry of singers of country music is typical of the excessive enthusiasm of youth.
18  Another complication was the excess of imports over exports.
19  I kind of redundant, will be redundant to become your excess.
20  An excess of fat in one's diet can lead to heart disease.
21  The drug can be harmful if taken in excess.
22  The increase will not be in excess of two per cent.
23  I rolled my eyes upward to indicate distaste at this telephonic excess.
24  In an excess of enthusiasm I agreed to work late.
25  The good thing about these younger players is that they are not carrying any excess baggage from less successful times.
26  You'll have to pay excess postal charges on this letter.
27  Drinking is OK as long as you don't do it to excess.
28  You will have to pay for the excess.
29  Anecdotes of legal excess reflect the world we see around us and add a human dimension to an otherwise arcane issue.
30  The clinical symptoms of magnesium excess or deficiency can be demonstrated to relate to this dependence.