excelsior

How to use excelsior in a sentence

• New York says it tried to make excelsior Pass more accessible by including an option to just print it out from the website — no smartphone required.

  We tested the first state ‘vaccine passport.’ Here’s what worked — and didn’t. | Geoffrey Fowler | April 9, 2021 | Washington Post

• In Minneapolis, Minnesota, and outside of it, on 40 acres of half-hearted farmland outside of excelsior, Minnesota.

  Charles Baxter: How I Write | Noah Charney | August 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• One of the best of all parodies is one in imitation of Longfellow's "excelsior," entitled "Tobacco."

  Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.

• We had to turn aside on our way downstairs for more furniture to make Buster a bed in a box full of excelsior in the shed.

  The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard Eaton

• Although it did not cry "excelsior," its output of vocables might have been mistaken, by a casual ear, for that clarion call.

  Average Jones | Samuel Hopkins Adams