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excelsior

[ UK /ɛksˈɛlsjɐ/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈsɛɫsiɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing

How To Use excelsior In A Sentence

  • I want to hear him read some scary fiction or corny old poetry, play his nose flute, then get us all to open our windows and shout, ‘Excelsior, you fatheads!’
  • I suppose one little leader must wave its little tail and cry "excelsior" to the others. A Woman Rice Planter
  • He knows how to work with outdated packing material like the thinly curled wood shavings known as excelsior and how to carve commercial deer mounts into shapes for wild antelopes and oryxes. NPR Topics: News
  • If you're thinking about investing in Asia, look no further than Excelsior Pacific / Asia to play the macroeconomic trends sweeping the region.
  • Meanwhile, you're theoretically defending the Excelsior, which rarely defends itself for some reason, and its shields are made of laughter and kisses.
  • My Clayton and Shuttleworth steamroller Excelsior was delivered new to Alfred J Ward and Sons in 1902.
  • Advocate rigorous and careful, excelsior, accomplish one one's heart to endeavor, pursuit to the queen's taste.
  • He takes the best suite in the turret of the elegant Hotel Excelsior.
  • These forests are distinguished by an outstanding diversity of deciduous oak species including Quercus frainetto, Q. pubescens, Q. cerris, Q. robur, and Q. petraea, as well as other deciduous broadleaf species such as Carpinus betulus, Fraxinus excelsior, Ulmus minor, Tilia spp., Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
  • Dionysium Episcopos, presbyteri semper unum ex se electum, in excelsiori gradu collocatum Episcopum nominabant; quomodo si exercitus Imperatorem faciat; aut Diaconi eligant de se quem industrium noverint, et The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
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