Example Sentences

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"Prince Joachim's descendants will thus have to be addressed as excellencies in the future."

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2022

“In yours, you could, and should, witness a wonderful recovery. That desperate hope — ladies and gentlemen, delegates, excellencies — is why the world is looking to you and why you are here.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021

These excellencies are small moments tucked into a baggy novel that struggles to find its focus.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2020

Pope’s solution was to flag the excellencies with a comma in the margin—or, if they were particularly “shining” examples, with a star—whereas “excessively bad” passages were “degraded to the bottom of the page.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2015

Their excellencies the governor and commander-in-chief were escorted by a body of West Chester light horse, under the command of Captain Delavan.

From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by Faris, John T. (John Thomson)