How To Use Surpass In A Sentence

Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
You have truly surpassed yourself in all manner of possible ways!
The second half of the match comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value.
It's worth keeping in mind that household mortgage credit expanded at an 11.4% rate during the second quarter, a torrid pace likely being surpassed with the current refi boom.
However the damages and injuries from the accidents so far this year surpassed those of last year.

The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
Modder River, when all day long most of our men were quite unable to discover on which side of the stream the Boer entrenchments were, and in what they called clever trickery, but we called treachery, they are absolutely unsurpassable. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
One effort was an adulatory poem, Le Siecle de Louis le Grand, in which he claimed that Louis XIV's world equalled, and surpassed, that of the ancient world.
Purposefully moraceous make money work from home, but the lintwhite unholiness was that the wildness sokoro was buried me surpassingly was a permanently in the pintado flyer skillet. Rational Review
Thus the new connotations and conceptualizations put forth by the Fathers revitalized the Church's memory of what the Apostles taught, and historical theology today would enable us to revitalize our memory of what the "unsurpassable" Fathers taught. Archive 2007-03-01
And so he had grown in the warmth of his parents 'love, trained in what we call outdoor sports, but which are life itself to the Arab, until at fourteen no one could surpass him in running or horsemanship or spear-throwing, whilst with rifle or revolver he could clip the hair off the top of a man's head, the which strenuous accomplishments he balanced in passing his leisure moments in the gentle arts of verse-making and even music, in spite of the latter being condemned by religion; also did he learn to converse in foreign tongues. Desert Love
You still have to surpass some threshold of stardom to get all that free time.
But, the sale of twice as many higher-strike calls exposes the investor to losses should shares in the name soar 61.2% over the current price to surpass the upper breakeven point at $20.10 by expiration day in January 2012. Bulls Tune Into TiVO Calls, Bears Tear Into Abercrombie
That means you're ready for the Tobago Cays, four deserted islets where the snorkeling and diving are unsurpassed, and there's plenty of room for sailboarding.
The team at Rockstar North have yet again surpassed themselves, and made something that is both epic and very innovative. Flixnjoystix.com! » Game News Bytes: May 25th – 29th, 2009! Rounding Up The Week’s Notable Video Game News Items!
Get Smart does have a sequel in 2011 so Get Smart can easilly surpass Paul Blart: Mall Cop. cartman on Mar 30, 2009 Worth Watching - June 9: Final Get Smart Trailer! « FirstShowing.net
In this way, Hawley’s goals surpassed those of the Self-Strengthening Movement out of which the C.E.M. had initially sprung and according to which the Chinese mind was, as an essential tenet of that movement, to remain inviolable to external influences. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
They have always been leaders in scouting and their record in national competition is unsurpassed.
As for the Drei Zinnen, they surpass in boldness and weirdness all the Dolomites of the Ampezzo. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
Television, in this sense, is the consummate egalitarian medium of communication, surpassing oral language itself.
There arose in that narrow, iron-sided gorge a havoc such as belike surpassed that of the original breaking through of the waters. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West
For the refuge in the Buddha to be genuine, it must be accompanied by a commitment to the Buddha as an incomparable teacher, as unexcelled and unsurpassed.
Then they returned to Dunyazad and displayed her in the fifth dress and in the sixth, which was green, when she surpassed with her loveliness the fair of the four quarters of the world and outvied, with the brightness of her countenance, the full moon at rising tide; for she was even as saith of her the poet in these couplets122: — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The 5-7 Griffin surpassed the century mark for the ninth time in his career, rushing for 111 yards on 23 carries. NCAA Division I College Football - Iowa State vs. Oklahoma
If successful, the IPO would be the world's biggest so far this year, according to Dealogic, surpassing the $127 million offering by Chinese health-care company Xizang Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd. in Shenzhen. Sunshine Oilsands Cleared for Hong Kong IPO
Hunt's acquisitive instincts far surpassed anything the Sublime Porte had in mind when it granted the firman.
By bundling Wii Sports with Wii consoles, Nintendo ensured that its flagship title surpassed sales of Super Mario Bros. HEXUS.gaming : News
All I can say is that it was truly a sandwich of unsurpassed quality, and that nearly six hours had passed since lunch. Times, Sunday Times
Akira has a well deserved reputation for being one of the most detailed works on animation ever and Otomo has easily surpassed his earlier work here.
IMO, a careful planning alternative is needed; inductive, goal-oriented spending, consistent with the broader economy, which will necessarily, continually re-envigorate the economy, would surpass any fundamental, paradigm shift!? Think Progress » On House GOP Website, Republican Leadership Takes Credit For Successful Stimulus Project
The costs of the vacation surpassed my expectation.
In more recent years, Napoleon—impersonated by Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Herbert Lom, Woody Allen and others—has featured in a number of more or less colossal productions, none unsurpassable. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
This term, he is within touching distance of surpassing that. Times, Sunday Times
she was a surpassingly beautiful woman
Our readers have so often displayed unfailing generosity: this time, you surpassed yourself in the most amazing style.
Not only are they among the largest and most stately trees on earth, but they thrive in settings of surpassing scenic beauty.
Il faut en ceci," dit-il, "tout accorder a leurs adversaires, les surpasser meme en severite, ne regarder a leurs accusations que pour y ajouter, s'ils en oublient; et puis les sommer de dresser, a leur tour, le compte des erreurs, des crimes, et des maux de ces temps et de ces pouvoirs qu'ils ont pris sous leur garde. Lectures on Modern history
Jason surpassed the speed limit in the city by fifty miles with Steven in the back seat holding me.
I was in great surprise at seeing the mouth of Unknown, so much surpassing in horror the jaws of upper Hell, I could hear a prodigious noise of arms, and loud discharges from one side, answered by what seemed to be hoarse thunders from the other; the rocks of Death, meanwhile, rebellowing the tumult. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
Arabian taint; Gothic pure, authoritative, unsurpassable, and unaccusable; -- its proper principles of structure being once understood and admitted. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
And as a form of social protest against autocracy and political tyranny, there is no medium that can surpass cartoons.
But taken together with two other rare historic objects from the foundation's collection, it now forms part of a "power trio" of early Virginia medals and coins unsurpassed by the holdings of any other institution. Undefined
This great annual event, now in its 177th year, really and truly surpassed itself with a display of all that is good in the countryside.
I do not profess to be a campanologist or a bell hunter, but I have a loving ear for a sweet-toned church bell, and can think of few belfries whose contents surpass St. Martin's, Birmingham. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"
If their arguments are successful, they can easily surpass the targets.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. Denis Waitley
With ridership that quickly surpassed expectations, they also brought in profits.
I'm delighted each year has surpassed the previous one and that is the aim again. The Sun
Anticipating the visual world of television, it surpassed even the condensations of the news weeklies and digest by summarizing in photographs instead of in text.
The beauty of the scenery surpassed all my expectations.
Europeans, and it is certainly grand and interesting and in a certain sense beautiful, but not the calm, sweet, warm beauty of our own fields, and there is none of the brightness of our own flowers; a field of buttercups, a hill of gorse or of heather, a bank of foxgloves and a hedge of wild roses and purple vetches surpass in _beauty_ anything I have ever seen in the tropics. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
That would have been an unsurpassable violin-piano French programme.
January 2006 European subscriptions surpass one million. Times, Sunday Times
Can images arising from a self apparently at ease internally and at peace with its environs ever produce images that surpass mere visual reportage?
We see this same science fiction morality play told yet again in 2010: The Year We Made Contact, the film that could never be as great as the unsurpassable 2001: A Space Odyssey, but which remains one of the best realistic science fiction films yet made. MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)
For the last 5 or 6 days I've been surpassing even myself in gloominess.
Though Johnson was less of a literary antiquary than some of his contemporaries, he possessed, through his work on the Dictionary, an unsurpassed knowledge of the language of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
If current trends continue unabated, Moyo goes much further than the usual surveys predicting when China will surpass the US in GDP - she suggests China's new hegemony could include the "redback" renminbi replacing the "greenback" dollar as the world's favourite currency. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
In another literary form, poetry, the Bible is unsurpassed.
His penetrating insights into aspects of health policy during the 1950s and 1960s are unsurpassed.
Thus, one of Hartshorne's preferred definitions of God: “the self-surpassing surpasser of all” (Hartshorne 1948, 20). Process Theism
She could handle a rifle or a six-gun with an artistry unsurpassed by that of any human being before her time or, probably, since.
There are wonderful drawings demonstrating how the variety of graphic style which Rubens commanded surpassed that of arty high renaissance artist.
I only meant her to make a tolerable figure, without surpassing any one. Daniel Deronda
The gentoo is the most strongly marked of all the smaller varieties of penguins as far as colouring is concerned, and it far surpasses the adelie in weight of legs and breast, the points that particularly appealed to us. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
Every year it surpasses itself with kitschness and when you see it listed on the television schedule, eyes invariably roll to heaven accompanied by moans and groans of distaste.
He scored on runs of 1, 2 and 33 yards in surpassing 200 yards rushing for the second time this season, and helped Mississippi State outrush Ole Miss 304-31. USATODAY.com - Scores
She said these areas if developed and easily accessible would surpass in its attraction any known tourist spot in the state.
It was not, alas, unique, unequalled, unsurpassed, or uncommon for all that.
Ever believable, this actress to my mind continually surpasses what I have always come to think of as her definitive performance.
With an elocutionary erudition surpassing that of his friendly rival, conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Moynihan held forth with a staccato bravado -- that sometimes bordered on the comical -- punctuated by pregnant pauses, the result of a speech impediment and not, as Moynihan's political opponents sometimes suggested, a drinking problem. Michael Sigman: Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life
Even if he was "phoning it in" or holding himself back while in rehearsal mode, the exteriority of the verisimilitude in his performance far surpasses most people, even on their best day. Ashley Wren Collins: Using Michael Jackson's Legacy to Open Can of Whoop Ass on Youth Work Ethic
Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The range, magnificence and diversity of the monuments in the Luxor area is unsurpassed in all of Egypt.
But what shall we do with our inner Fire, our inner Urge, our inner Intensity to surpass all my limitations, all our animal wildness that makes us slaves, our unquenched eagerness to surpass all darkness and ignorance, and our askesis to receive the Help of any higher Power in our difficulties, in our sufferings and in the matters of death and diseases? Should we then go back to the caves! Can we stop Evolution?
The state's cultural institutions, educational centers, and unsurpassed scenery and natural vacationlands continue to bring Utah wide acclaim.
Whatever the case, fact sometimes surpasses fiction in its immense strangeness.
The quality of Smallbone furniture is unsurpassed.
Adds the companion not to surpass in the total heat the need.
Its computational power has now surpassed the five petaflops mark.
The present orchestra outplays the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, however, and the stereo broadcast sonics surpass Vox's monaural recording.
The shaddock of Java is a magnificent fruit, and surpasses those of any other country with which I am acquainted. Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.
In "hypermiling," a quirky new competitive pastime, the winning drivers have surpassed 150 miles per gallon in mass-produced hybrids. Efficient Drivers Cut Emissions, but Stir Up Hot Air
THE number of people using wireless is set to surpass those using landline telephones next year. Times, Sunday Times
He said he commended their guest for her knowledge of Neapolitan art which no doubt surpassed that of most Neapolitans.
Rising enrollment in area schools is part of a movement that experts say is unsurpassed in the country's education history since the Civil War.
The awful bristliness of my still-unshaven face had now surpassed mere "designer stubble" and passed into the unforgivable realms of "actually a beard".
His knowledge of Westbury was said to be unsurpassed and he had been a key player in planning the town's visitor centre, which opened in December.
The supporting acts came close to surpassing the headline ones. Times, Sunday Times
Studies show that European subscriptions to high-speed Internet service are on track to surpass those in the United States.
Their affinity with the Leicester public, too, is unsurpassed.
A short, elderly woman of unsurpassing hideosity came upon them - or rather, stumbled over them.
Of the eight players chosen ahead of Stoudemire, none has surpassed his production.
The torrent of knocks roared louder, slightly failed upon the ear, made a crescendo, emulated Niagara, surpassed that very American effort of nature, wavered, faltered to Lodore, died away to a feeble tittup like water dropping from a tap to flagstones, rose again in a final spurt that would have made Southey open his dictionary for adjectives, and drained away to death. The Prophet of Berkeley Square
He is brimming with unused love, a passion for justice, a need to repent that surpasses what the law ordained.
Elaborating on Engels's assertion that the ultimate aim of a communist party is to "surpass the entire State, and thus democracy too (" surpass "- Überwinden in German, is also translated as" overcome "), Lenin wrote: Political Affairs Magazine
Still unsurpassed, three decades on. Times, Sunday Times
By the time the local confabs had concluded at the end of March, it was clear Earley was about to surpass the 4,813 delegate votes required for the nomination, with Hager about 900 behind.
This term, he is within touching distance of surpassing that. Times, Sunday Times
Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would. Baltasar Gracian
One line of soldiers surpassed the other
The council has really surpassed itself this year.
Are you longing for the surpassing Snowman Experience but never desire to ensnare yourself in its endless loop of harmful effects or its termless addiction? Teens Hymen Blog
Many people know the story of Padmini, the queen of Chittaur, whose surpassing beauty led Alauddin Khilji, the Sultan of Delhi, to wage a ruthless war.
Does your desire to understand surpass your fear of possibly being wrong? Christianity Today
But, like the Super Bowl itself, expectations for these Web sites usually surpass the actual event.
The argument speaks, therefore, of an unsurpassably great being - of a being whose greatness is not excelled by any being in any world.
Teeth compromised because of endodontic problems may have a longevity that surpasses that of the average implant.
You eat this kind of pill to forbid to surpass two balls every time.
The Thai Buddhist temple external appearance shape grandiosity grand view, the building decorate delicately unsurpassed, possess"Thai art museum" beautiful call, is Thailand culture of pick.
Everything had gone wrong except the quality of the magazine, which remained unsurpassed. Ford Madox Ford
The location is unsurpassed and it has cuisine to tweet home about. Times, Sunday Times
There is sensational scenery, fabulous wildlife and air of unsurpassed clarity.
Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would. Baltasar Gracian
His abilities are great, surpassing even our most renowned intellects in the ways of electropsionics and magnopsionics.
unsurpassable skill
The project did not have numbers available but said online ad revenue was expected to surpass print newspaper ad revenue for the first time in 2010.
As with strength of grip, so with endurance as measured by the ergograph; boys surpass girls at all ages, and this differentiation becomes very marked after the age of fourteen, after which age girls increase in strength and endurance but very slightly, while after fourteen boys acquire almost exactly half of the total power in these two features which they acquire in the first twenty years of life. Civics and Health
Hammett was Raymond Chandler's acknowledged master, but as a sheer stylist the student surpassed the mentor.
The younger Mr. Daley was first elected mayor in 1989 and will by the end of his term surpass his father by a year, making him Chicago's longest-serving mayor. Chicago Mayor Daley Won't Run for Re-Election
What Robert Trent Jones was to golf courses, Robert Muldoon is to zoos: a designer of unsurpassed knowledge and skill. Jurassic Park Author Michael Crichton Dies | /Film
The stylistic theming is unsurpassed in anything I have ever seen.
The relation between the Old revelation and the New is this, that Christ was pointed to by it all, and that in Himself He sums up and surpasses and antiquates, because He fulfils, all the past. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
The moment you set a goal and achieve it, somebody will eventually beat your record and surpass your goal!
His time for the 100 metres surpassed the previous world record by one hundredth of a second.
With an elocutionary erudition surpassing that of his friendly rival, conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Michael Sigman: Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life
In fact, the number of security personnel, members of the media, and casual observers may have surpassed that of actual demonstrators, but more protesters arrived over the next hour, carrying signs with such slogans as “vivisection is scientific fraud” and “we cannot cure humans by torturing animals.” Archive 2006-01-01
The call spreader is prepared to make money as long as Weatherford's shares rally 8.9% over the current price of $15.63 to surpass the average breakeven point at FXstreet.com
Are we to believe that in the rational future, these works will be surpassed by works exalting happiness and denigrating self-sacrifice?
Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul. Sunday Salon - Cowslip heaven
THE number of people using wireless is set to surpass those using landline telephones next year. Times, Sunday Times
All I can say is that it was truly a sandwich of unsurpassed quality, and that nearly six hours had passed since lunch. Times, Sunday Times
The divorce rate among Korean Americans has reached and is possibly surpassing the national average.
It is, finally, with the magisterial last story that Ford surpasses himself, writing with a directness and clarity that leaves even the best of the stories in its dust.
Arab - Americans surpass the national average in both education and income.
Dr. Thornton says: "I have used old wine of white Currants for calculous affections, and it has surpassed all expectation. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Twinkling chaffer/roarers followed behind them, quickly surpassing the pillars as they raced into the starfield. Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 15.1 of 31.1
I'm delighted each year has surpassed the previous one and that is the aim again. The Sun
Dr. Paul Cravath of the University of Hawaii elegantly captured the essence of the “devata” when he wrote, “There, with stupendous variety, the Feminine achieved a new level of expression unsurpassed at any time in Asian sculpture.” Review: Costumes and Ornaments after the Devata of Angkor Wat | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
Dutchman's mouth water -- a "polder" of surpassing excellence, but it is viewed in a different light by enthusiastic wild duck shooters, who, like the owner of a grouse moor, look upon drainage and reclamation as the visible work of the devil. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
It was one of those evenings of surpassing loveliness, such as gladdened our hearts only at long intervals. Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865
A look of love that surpasses understanding. Times, Sunday Times
The effect of the luckless comparison was to produce an image of surpassingness in the features of Clara that gave him the final, or mace-blow. The Egoist
His steadfast belief in an unsurpassable standard of excellence echoes the æsthetic by which he lives.
‘If complexity of social structure is a pressure to develop certain aspects of intelligence, we should expect ring-tailed lemurs to surpass all other prosimian species on tasks that tap those aspects of intelligence,’ she said.
The canzonas and sonatas are unsurpassed - in scale, expressive range, and sheer idiomatic flair - in the entire sixteenth-century instrumental repertoire.
If the modernist box remains the default form, unsurpassable for its elegance and adaptability, it has also been the spur to some amazingly bold escapes from that orthodoxy.
It was unsurpassed in the length of the front, depth of the advance and retreat, duration of continuous fighting, and the size of the armies on each side.
Madeline chided herself for her vulgar thoughts; while the woman had a beauty and sensuality that could match or surpass any demirep in England, the perfect face glowed with the unstudied sweetness and innocence of a Madonna. Dearly Beloved
When I met a Don who, I was told, was "unsurpassed" in the Greek or Latin classics and could probably appreciate them as well as if he had been a Greek or The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
What arguments he used on this point cannot exactly be known, for Sir Everard was never supposed strong in the powers of persuasion; but the young officer, immediately after this transaction, rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronised professional merit, although, to outward appearance, that was all he had to depend upon. Waverley
I thought last week's performance by Cris was the worst I'd ever seen by a professional footballer, but he's surpassing himself tonight.
Some racegoers even thought yesterday's racing had surpassed June's Royal Ascot meeting.
For sheer ecstasy of flunkeydom "Jenkins" was unsurpassed and unsurpassable, but at least he was capable of recognizing native talent, as may be gleaned from his notice of Semiramide in English in the winter of 1842: -- Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
They will enter a hall of surpassing beauty, with walls of Douglas fir that flow as elegantly as the lines of a fine instrument, a space as soulful in its way as the cathedral's nave.
Instead she hopes to surpass Obama in the popular vote, and then persuade the superdelegates to side with her at the convention.
Visitors can climb the tower and enjoy an unsurpassable view of the surrounding countryside.
Had our intelligence people arrested this Pig prior to entering the aircraft, that would constitute a thwarted attempt, a misfire is a failed attempt that surpassed all safety and screening barriers. White House: President notified of new flight scare
The 52-bell carillon in Ghent, Belgium, is 700 years old and was the largest in the world until it was surpassed in 1925 by the 53-bell carillon at the Park Avenue Baptist Church in New York City.
Its members are unsurpassed at stopping murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries and other violent crimes.
If the writings of Addison were more scholarly and elegant, those of Steele were more vivacious and brilliant; and together they have produced a series of essays which have not been surpassed in later times, and which are vividly delineative of their own. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
But, the sale of twice as many higher-strike calls exposes the investor to losses should shares in the name soar 61.2% over the current price to surpass the upper breakeven point at $20.10 by expiration day in January Forbes.com: News
Another laggard was the Department of Defense, which was among a group of five agencies that only met or surpassed one of its five targets. US Misses Target for Small-Business Contracts
Mac, representing him as but little inferior in power of imagination, exaggeration, minification, and downright leasing to the unsurpassable Current Literature
Indeed, their incompetence sometimes surpasses all human understanding. Times, Sunday Times
While all his books are a guaranteed good read, Master-at-Arms stands out as unsurpassed in offering a glimpse of swordplay that even the rankest novice can understand and even the most expert can appreciate.
The fifth five that was used, as I find, by this knight was free-giving and friendliness first before all, and chastity and chivalry ever changeless and straight, and piety surpassing all points: these perfect five were hasped upon him harder than on any man else. The Pentangel Depaynt of Pure Golde Hwes
Everything had gone wrong except the quality of the magazine, which remained unsurpassed. Ford Madox Ford
We passed through channels edged by emerald mountains and snowcapped volcanoes; the starry night skies were unsurpassable.
There is sensational scenery, fabulous wildlife and air of unsurpassed clarity.
What we lack in luxury, is made up in great friendship and camaraderie ... unsurpassed. Get Your Hunting Camp Featured in F&S!
Some 23 provinces suffer power shortages as demand from industrial production surpasses the growth of generation capacity.
Superb predators, these animals surpass all other lizards in intelligence.
Dubbed an acoustic lens, the device could also be used to create near photo-quality images of internal organs that surpass the resolution of modern ultrasounds.
In the last 50 years, our strategic forces made quantum jumps in effectiveness that surpassed anything the Soviet Union could do.
As a verbal melodist, especially a melodist of sweetness and of stately grace, and as a harmonist of prolonged and complex cadences, he is unsurpassable. A History of English Literature
Today's indication of notes and coins surpass the peak seen over the June month-end notes when they reached 25.208 billion rand on Jul 5. ANC Daily News Briefing
Cities remained unsurpassed as centers of artistic and intellectual life. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
With the simplest words and the most severe economy of diction, he produces an effect such as Vergil rarely surpassed, and such as was never excelled or equalled again in the poetry of Southern Europe till Dante told the story of Paolo and Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
The act of self-stabbing implies an unsurpassable hopelessness coupled with ferocity; it is the quintessential self-murder.
No painter who has been labelled ‘baroque’ has surpassed Rubens, the supreme colourist.
For Barthes, the third meaning exists in those details of the image that surpass their narratological function, representing ‘a structuration which leaks from inside.’
The quality of Miéville's writing is often breathtaking, his skill at characterisation unsurpassed, but in many ways even more remarkable is his sheer inventiveness, the genius with which he creates and populates his fantastic world.
In China, eBay EachNet added 2.3 million new users, more than any market outside the United States, to reach a total of 20.3 million users. eBay India surpassed the 2 million user mark and listings jumped threefold from the year-ago quarter. Archive 2006-04-01
The eye of the spectator is disappointed by an irregular prospect of half-domes and shelving roofs: the western front, the principal approach, is destitute of simplicity and magnificence; and the scale of dimensions has been much surpassed by several of the Latin cathedrals. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
I only meant her to make a tolerable figure, without surpassing any one. Daniel Deronda
His diatribe comes at a time when French gastronomy is struggling to restore a reputation battered by claims that it has been surpassed by many other countries. Times, Sunday Times
THE number of people using wireless is set to surpass those using landline telephones next year. Times, Sunday Times
This decades-old machine has long since been surpassed by bevatrons and linear accelerators.
The commendations awarded to his officers publicly recognise that they have not only met these challenges but surpassed expectations.
Its fruits are unsurpassably pre-eminent, so mighty and so manifold that there is not room enough to receive them.
Tiger Woods might someday surpass Jack Nicklaus as the golfer who won the most majors.
Today it still remains unsurpassed by all who have tried.
He awed at the power flooding his senses, filling him with unsurpassed might.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. Denis Waitley
A look of love that surpasses understanding. Times, Sunday Times
Set entirely in a wooden box several feet underground in an Iraqi desert, it takes compressionism to an unsurpassable extreme. Buried
As it came across Raven's bow, its pi-lot threw the plane into a hard turn north, probably surpassing nine g's. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
That he can write lines surpassing -- aye! "she cried," _surpassing_ Polonius's advice to his son, and leave them uncopied on an ale-house table to go off with the first loose woman who comes by, and be carried home, too drunk to walk, the next morning, roaring out hymns about eternal salvation. Nancy Stair A Novel
The public turmoil and the Bakken-Flowers win overshadowed a long-term trend in the sport: The German teams have caught up with and perhaps surpassed the Americans. USATODAY.com - World Championships preview: Women's bobsled

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