Example Sentences

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No doubt at the library’s 150th anniversary, Goodnight Moon will have surpassed some of the more dated titles on the list, like How to Win Friends and Influence People.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2020

Any sugar that has colored this deeply and is unadulterated by cream or butter will have surpassed the hard-crack stage and wind up crunchy and brittle-like.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2018

“Budgetwise,” Mr. Allen said, “it will have surpassed everything that’s on the wall, maybe all of them combined.”

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2011

Hispanics now number about 24 million, and by 2010 -- little more than a dozen years from now -- they will have surpassed blacks in number.

From Time Magazine Archive

And if, on such evidence, you succeed in holding me up to infamy, you will have surpassed all the heroines of the Greek drama.”

From Romola by Eliot, George