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How to use excelled in a sentence

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He loved the outdoor life and travelled extensively in Europe where he excelled at mountain climbing.
At school he excelled at all sports, becoming captain of athletics and representing his school in the public schools championships.
An avid student, Edmond excelled at his schoolwork, and was thought of as his school's best poet.
Renowned for attracting top acts to the showpiece event, this year they have excelled themselves by signing up current chart-toppers Hear'say.
Born in Antwerp and trained as a marine artist, he excelled in portraying the busy life of ports.
He made history in the old days when he competed in ploughing championships with a pair of horses, at which he excelled.
My sister and I had healthy birth weights, hit all the markers, and excelled academically, despite the lack of elbow room.
Elsewhere, he excelled in Chopin's smaller works, especially the mazurkas, to which he brought unusual lapidary refinement.
Our snipers and reconnaissance Marines excelled at this task, as one would expect of trained observers.
Margaret was also a great sewer and dress-maker, a craft at which she excelled in her younger years.
If Mother were alive today, she'd put TV makeover shows to shame, for she excelled in transformation.
At the end of the year, the school gave a prize to the student who best excelled at those essays.
Traditionally, Bakongo artisans have excelled in woodcarving, sculpting, painting, and stonework.
Off it he excelled even more as an administrator, and in lauding and applauding him I also thank him for services so superbly rendered.
His tribulations at a sport at which he previously naturally excelled would have tried the patience of a saint.
The keeper then excelled himself by reacting quickly to block the rebound from Adam and, unbelievably, Dundee were still ahead.
I'm delighted with the organisation and the transport planners excelled themselves.
Other signings have disappointed but McCormack excelled himself in the close season by landing St George star Darren Treacy.
The Pendle team were a little thin on the ground, but those who did compete excelled themselves with a total of 16 personal best performances.
She excelled in every subject and was friends with just about the entire school.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His powers were more confined to materialization than Eglinton's, but in that he excelled.
For concision, picturesqueness and concreteness, this narrative is not excelled in all literature.
There he plied his tasks so diligently that he excelled all in book-learning.
The crudeness of many of these is scarcely to be excelled in any part of the world.
At this set task in letter-writing, the cow-puncher had greatly excelled the schoolmarm!
Yet these were excelled both in size and magnificence by the therm Dioclesian.
Chow was a later potter who, near the end of the ming dynasty, also excelled in imitating ancient vases.
As a lyrist Scott especially excelled, and as a novelist he takes rank among the foremost.
Herein, then, it is that Persius has excelled both Juvenal and Horace.
She attended public schools in Brooklyn where she studied business and excelled in bookkeeping, stenography and typing.
While they excelled in classical repertoire, they mesmerized audiences in works by Glen Tetley, Dwight Rhoden, and Balanchine.
The flint glass of these works, started in 1824, has never been excelled.
His goodness of mind was only excelled by his goodness of character, whose ampleness and magnanimity was not narrowed or ruffled by anything.
Taine excelled in praise of her intellectual vigour and productivity.
The masterly handling of color in this picture has rarely been excelled.
Deschamps excelled in the use of the ballade and the chant royal.
He could buttock cleanly, hype quickly, and excelled in most other chips.
The word was no sooner spoken than our shellback again excelled himself.
Amphialus excelled all the others in jumping, while at throwing the disc there was no one who could approach Elatreus.
These were the sons of Merops of Percote, who excelled in all kinds of divination.
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