to an excessive degree
Example Sentences
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It may be that this group’s winner will be mediocre to an excessive degree.
From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2014
Nicaragua argued the territorial rights extending out from the islets' shores deprived it of offshore economic rights to an excessive degree.
From Reuters • Nov. 19, 2012
The occasions, indeed, on which it had manifested itself to an excessive degree, had been but few.
From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George
Yet Napoleon III. was lavish of rewards to his adherents, while the Emperor William was, to an excessive degree, chary of recompense.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth
Whilst Carver was making over it a passage which lasted near twenty-four hours—it thundered and lightened during the greatest part of the time to an excessive degree.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by Jones, James Athearn
