Sentence examples for was surpassing from inspiring English sources
verb
To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.
- The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination.
Wingers Chris Oti and Rory Underwood – who was surpassing Mike Slemen's record of 32 caps on the wing for England – were exciting, but many felt the pair had not been utilised enough during the championship, an allegation often thrown at England over the next few years, culminating famously in David Campese's infamous mind games prior to the 1991 World Cup final.
The hypothetical work was surpassing to successfully differentiate dynamical systems expecting finite, noisy data, or to confirm a deterministic background.
Interest in science and engineering courses arose after the 1957 Sputnik launch, which raised public concerns that the Soviet Union's technical capability was surpassing America's.
It was surpassed by Apple and Samsung.
Your outer beauty was surpassed only by your inner beauty.
This mark was surpassed in 1970 by Willie Shoemaker.
"His appetite for life was surpassed only by his appetite for food, which was surpassed only by his appetite for crossbreeding house cats with wild squirrels.
In the early 1960s production of natural rubber was surpassed by that of synthetic elastomers.
The biggest American company by market capitalization in the late 1990s, it was surpassed by Apple last year.
