How to Use exclamation point in a Sentence

exclamation point

noun

• This should be the exclamation point, but the Gators will fight until the end.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 23 Nov. 2022
• That play was the exclamation point to the whole darn season.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2021
• Taylor’s grand slam put the exclamation point on a 4-2 road trip for the Mets.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
• The prepared text had eighty exclamation points in it; Biden may have added a few more along the way.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
• The second was a wide-open 3-pointer and the third was a fast-break dunk that served as an exclamation point for the win.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2023
• The exclamation point came in the closing minute, with the shot-clock running down.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• The 4-year-old colt’s gate-to-wire win was a big exclamation point for the connections.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Late in the fourth quarter, Koch capped off the scoring by putting an exclamation point on the game.
  — Eric Bem, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 Apr. 2021
• Now that it’s here, it’s the exclamation point at the 40-year-mark of a career that finds the last 12 months to be one of their most eventful yet.
  — Lori Majewski, Variety, 4 Nov. 2022
• The brooch was like a boldface exclamation point on his high-wattage smile.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The Nicks concert put an exclamation point on the state-of-the-art Orion’s first season.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 1 Nov. 2022
• Harris added the exclamation point with his school-record fifth touchdown of the night for the 63-48 final.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 11 Oct. 2020
• The guy with Seattle ties put an exclamation point on his first week back in the Major Leagues in two years.
  — Dallas News, 4 July 2021
• The Spartans arm-pumped their way off the court at the final second exclamation point.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
• The use of 12 exclamation points in the short tweets gives you some idea of Parsons’ excitement.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• Mookie Betts reached base four times and Cody Bellinger put an exclamation point on the blowout with a three-run shot in the seventh.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2020
• The Vikings grabbed the rebound and got the ball into the hands of Meeks, who ended the game with an exclamation point via a thunderous dunk.
  — Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2022
• Schultz put an exclamation point on the victory with a dunk in the final minute.
  — Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2022
• In the long take, there are a lot of periods, commas, and exclamation points.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
• This is the problem that emojis and exclamation points seek to solve.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2020
• If the past few years of wildfires were a statement about climate change, 2020 was the exclamation point.
  — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2020
• In the final minute, Sanchez scored her first career goal to provide the final exclamation point on the night.
  — Adam Jardy, The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2022
• Smiling, Bird walked over, hit five in a row from the same spot, then sailed one in from midcourt as an exclamation point.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
• His third, a 2-yard touchdown, put an exclamation point on the first half as time expired.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2022
• Losing to a one-win Cincinnati team was the exclamation point.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2019
• Witt’s blast was the perfect exclamation point on an opening frame in which the Royals scored nine runs on 11 hits.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
• In the days of newspaper typesetters, the exclamation point was called the shriek.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• The exclamation point was a two-on-none break where Matt Bradley lobbed to Keshad Johnson for a two-handed dunk.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2021
• Cause for Alarm! earns the exclamation point in its title, delivering a deft, twisty thriller largely in the confines of a single home.
  — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
• Simply put, this chair is everything that ends in an exclamation point.
  — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024