How to Use exclamation in a Sentence

exclamation

noun

• Her unexpected announcement caused a few exclamations of surprise.
• That would be the exclamation mark, the last of the major pieces of the puzzle.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 22 Nov. 2023
• And there were, like, exclamation points in the e-mail.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
• To get around that sticky mess, the founders stuck an exclamation point at the end and Yahoo! was off to the races.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
• The shot was the exclamation mark on a big comeback for UAA.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2023
• On a 1-and-1 pitch, Bogaerts launched a three-run homer that put the exclamation mark on the evening.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2019
• In the past month, Vladimir Putin has put an exclamation mark on that point.
  — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• The people who watch over you tend to talk in exclamation points.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
• But back-to-back dunks by Allen Flanigan and Jaylin Williams helped put an exclamation mark on the win.
  — Giana Han, al, 6 Mar. 2021
• But soon come the flashes of exclamation, as King stresses a word or a phrase with a quiver, a shout, or a roar.
  — Dagmawi Woubshet, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2018
• The two had heard the movie contained a vulgar exclamation that was not often heard in films at the time.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2018
• Those schools listed above, the ones with exclamation marks next to their names?
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2018
• The exclamation won a round of applause from the crowd, plus a smile and applause from Meghan herself.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
• Guin made a noise, a horsey exclamation from her fat, pursed lips, and Tim shot his hand back to cover her mouth.
  — Kathleen Alcott, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• Less than a year later, the exclamation point was back.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 June 2017
• The comment cards on this one had a lot of exclamation points: creamy! tart! amazing!
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 7 Aug. 2017
• In the seventh, Butera put an exclamation point on his day at the plate with a solo shot to left center.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity.com, 14 May 2017
• In the seventh, Pompano's Michael Schuler added an exclamation point, driving in two with a base hit in the hole.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 May 2017
• Swapping the exclamation marks of horror for the question marks of sci-fi, this is less about scares.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 July 2022
• Trout hit a solo home run in his first at-bat, his 27th of the season, and put an exclamation mark on it with a big fist pump.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
• Musk replied to Libs of TikTok’s post on X with two exclamation marks.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Feel free to text with your own ex about it, with exclamation points or puke emojis.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• After his first exclamation on the floor, Freeman paused and stared into the crowd of 1,598.
  — Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
• Go easy on the emojis Go easy on the emojis, exclamations, quotes, colors and fonts in your emails.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• So Curry's shoes felt like an exclamation mark on the trip.
  — Hunter Schwarz, CNN, 14 Apr. 2018
• In my notes from the book there are many questions like this, primal scream exclamation marks.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• On Sunday, the president fired off a series of all-capped-and-exclamation-point-laden tweets that were all over the place.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 21 May 2018
• The gunshot at the end of the album cut version of the song kind of served as the exclamation point of this composition that many knew all too well.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 30 June 2017
• Then Marchand put an exclamation on the evening by winning the 200 breaststroke, also in Olympic record time, as a deafening French crowd urged him on.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 31 July 2024
• The crowd broke out in loud exclamations of admiration as her screams paired with the frenzied, flashing lights and the visuals, which faithfully reproduced the feel of the song’s music video.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024