Example Sentences

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"The play is beautifully acted but surpassingly bleak," said Matt Wolf of the New York Times.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2023

The play is beautifully acted but surpassingly bleak, and spectators may find their own threshold for trauma tested more than once.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2023

Reductive, ghoulish and surpassingly boring, “Blonde” might have invented a new cinematic genre: necro-fiction.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

But because those files had been processed separately, it became difficult — surpassingly so, in some cases — to combine data from the two into single files that are accurate, yet still protect privacy.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2022

Close up, either full-face or in profile, he was surpassingly handsome, even spectacularly so.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger