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
Puech & Lacamp were prudent to an excessive degree; they never risked a thousand crowns without the greatest fear, and thus their house, a veritable hole, was an unimportant one.
From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
Many dogs are sensitive to an excessive degree, so sensitive indeed that any correction of them, beyond such as can be conveyed by a word, amounts to positive cruelty.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
It may sometimes be due to an excessive degree of asphyxia during birth.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
