Sentence examples for somehow exceeded from inspiring English sources

At $20.8 million, the animal, cast in an edition of eight, somehow exceeded, if only very slightly, an estimate that had seemed absurdly ambitious.

In '98, all breaking voice and flipper-like feet, teenage Thorpe somehow exceeded the lofty expectations that had come from his showings in World Championship competition and Games trials, claiming gold in the 200m (one-hundredth of a second off world record pace) and 400m freestyle, as well as the 4 x 100m and 4 x 200m (in world record time) relay teams.

You must, somehow, exceed your own strength.

This whole notion that somehow I exceeded my authority here, was usurping his authority, is simply not true.

Such systems could be capable not only of exhibiting behavior that somehow resembles human behavior, but which somehow also exceeds human abilities, resulting in some situations in new "superhuman" music [34].

Madison: Should such a potent "machinery gun" ever come into being and somehow not exceed the cost of an entire militia, a town madman would be refused sale from any responsible merchant because of his agitated demeanor.

Between 1992 and 1994, Mr. Salinas, a consultant to a Mexican antipoverty agency whose annual salary never exceeded $190,000, somehow moved almost $100 million from Citibank accounts in Mexico and New York to Citibank accounts in London and Switzerland.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised anymore that Apple product launches somehow continue to exceed expectations, the machine reliably churning out another hit.

The Exorcist maze somehow managed to exceed my high expectations — even with the lights on and without any actors or audio effects.

But he exceeded his mandate, somehow transforming the car wrecks into sculptural objects.

Somehow, he has met or even exceeded the dizzying expectations that sprouted the moment he was drafted.