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• Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface.From the entry flush
• This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.From the entry conduit
• Coolant is used in car engines and industrial processes, where excess heat could cause machine damage.From the entry coolant
• His sudden loss of rationality was brought on by excess drink.From the entry rationality
• Ireland in decades past saw an excess of clericalism and disregard for the laity.From the entry clericalism
• The doctor performed a pericardiocentesis to remove the excess fluid from around the patient’s heart.From the entry -centesis
• These results suggest that excess iodine induces thyroid involution in goitrogen-treated rats at least partially by apoptosis.From the entry goitrogen
• Wash excess product out of your hair.From the entry product
• The surgeon lased the elongated soft palate, cutting off the excess tissue and stopping the blood flow in one swipe.From the entry lase
• A ranch steak is usually trimmed of all excess fat.From the entry trim
• He was excessed in the last downsizing.From the entry downsizing
• You have to cook off the excess liquid.From the entry cook off
• The laser burned away the excess body hair.From the entry burn away
• Didn't you know that the IRS will refund any excess payroll taxes that you paid if you use the 45(B) general business credit?From the entry credit
• Hydrogen-7 has so many excess neutrons that it lies beyond the neutron drip line, and will spit out neutrons until it becomes a particle-bound isotope.From the entry drip line
• A short squeeze can occur when there is a lack of supply and an excess of demand for the stock due to short sellers covering (liquidating) their positions.From the entry short squeeze
• It was meant to be a warning against the excesses of heroin use, according to its author.2023 July 2, David Barnett, “‘Choose drugs?’ 30 years after he wrote Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh says life is tougher now”, in The…. From the entry no-holds-barred
• For the first 12 months, the figure was in excess of 1.2 million.2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 52. From the entry forecast
• Ex-Dundee Provost William Robertson timed one train at 43mph, way in excess of the 25mph speed limit.2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81. From the entry way
• Use your hands (or paper towel) to squeeze out excess water, then roughly chop.2020, Charlotte Druckman, Kitchen Remix: 75 Recipes for Making the Most of Your Ingredients: A Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry rabe
• In Provence, however, he finds me overbearing, no doubt due to an excess of togetherness.2017, Mary-Lou Weisman, Playing House in Provence: How Two Americans Became a Little Bit French, →ISBN. From the entry umbrella step
• Though the dam metaphor is more apt, what with the excess magic flooding outward."2016 October 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Oct 10, 2016. From the entry pop
• Cryolipolysis does not appear to be as effective in obese patients or patients with excess skin laxity.2016, Koushik Lahiri, Textbook of Lasers in Dermatology, →ISBN, page 247. From the entry cryolipolysis
• Some soft, muffled bufferedness was bound to take over, as if she were buttressed by excess packaging.2016, Lionel Shriver, The Self-Seeding Sycamore. From the entry bufferedness
• But Christian Lacroix, who brought color, excess, humor, and the pouf to fashion, stood apart.2016 July 3, Laird Borrelli-Persson, “Christian Lacroix on Absolutely Fabulous and 1990s Fashion”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast…. From the entry Arlesian
• Having lived below the breadline, having lived with excess, was it about to change once more?2015, Gail Brooking, Coping With Change. From the entry breadline
• In response, cells had to transport excess zinc ions into the zincosome and organelles.2015 July 22, “The Kinetic Response of the Proteome in A549 Cells Exposed to ZnSO 4 Stress”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry zincosome
• Disintegration of bungaroosh: Failure associated with lack of cohesion or excess moisture.2015, David Watt, Surveying Historic Buildings, →ISBN. From the entry bungaroosh
• Added the chopped choy sum and stir it to release any excess water as steam.2013, Fuchsia Dunlop, “Stir-fried chopped choy sum”, in Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN…. From the entry choy sum
• People are going out with the intention of drinking to excess.2013 September 2, Brian Reay, “Re: Supermarket powers”, in uk.food+drink.misc (Usenet). From the entry pre-lash
• One way to help prevent excess graphite from smearing is through the use of eraser dust.2012, Dennis Dorn, Mark Shanda, Drafting for the Theatre, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry eraser dust
• Bishop Fisher, appalled by the extravagance, wrote, Never was seen in England such excess of apparelment before.”2011, Alison Weir, Henry VIII: King and Court, →ISBN, page 227. From the entry apparelment
• Discard the excess fat from the roasting pan but reserve some for making the pinçage.2011 September 13, The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), The Professional Chef, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 263. From the entry pinçage
• Obese and largely unintelligible, Don Vito represents a working-class white male grotesque, the picture of excess.2009, Emily Chivers Yochim, Skate Life, page 128. From the entry grotesque
• Perhaps no classical Roman ruin evokes the excesses of the late Empire like the Colosseum.2009, Holly Hughes, Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up, unnumbered page. From the entry colosseum
• Proof of the role of AA excess in the development of PCOS is circumstantial at best.2007, Bulent O. Yildiz, Enrico Carmina, Ricardo Azziz, “Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Dysfunction in the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome”, in…. From the entry aa

Meaning of excess

1. noun The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.
2. noun The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
3. noun An act of eating or drinking more than enough.

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Questions about excess in a sentence

How do you use excess in a sentence?

Excess is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country.”

What is a short sentence with excess?

“He was excessed in the last downsizing.”

What does excess mean?

Excess means the state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.