verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
▪
And this is exactly the quality which Wordsworth excels in .
▪
Producers such as these do not excel in only the great vintages.
▪
They excelled in and developed the arts of building, of engineering and of town planning.
▪
Among the commodities, which we could prove we excelled in is officeholders and politicians.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Costner has excelled himself in this movie - definitely his best performance yet.
▪
He played cricket for Middlesex but it was football that he really excelled at.
▪
I didn't exactly excel academically and I left school as soon as I had the chance.
▪
Many parents put too much pressure on their children to excel in school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Alyse was a skilled rider and tried to help me with my technique, but I never excelled.
▪
He frequently rode and hunted, and enjoyed swimming, at which he excelled.
▪
Parallel distributed computing excels in perception, visualization, and simulation.
▪
Schools that excel and attract more students rarely grow or clone themselves.
▪
The kind of tasks it might excel at are assembling keyboards and putting gearboxes or electric motors together.
▪
You want your children to excel in sports?