How to Use exhilaration in a Sentence

exhilaration

noun
  • I felt a kind of exhilaration when I reached the top of the mountain.
  • There’s been exhilaration at the end of games for the Wildcats the past eight years.
    Luis Torres, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2018
  • There’s an exhilaration in the air and the feel of entering a brave new era.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • The hope, sleaze and exhilaration of the 1990s have faded.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • From the dress to the vows and the first dance, your wedding day is likely to be equal parts exhilaration and terror.
    Meg Storm, Town & Country, 4 Oct. 2016
  • From the dress to the vows and the first dance, your wedding day is likely to be equal parts exhilaration and terror.
    Meg Storm, Town & Country, 4 Oct. 2016
  • The exhilaration wears off as the moves repeat again and again.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • The agony of a loss or bad play can be as powerful of an image as the exhilaration of a win.
    cleveland, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The exhilaration of Ohtani’s mastery built among the crowd as the innings wore on, each pitch more precious than the last.
    Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This one runs the gamut of emotions from despair to exhilaration, with equal amounts of tears and laughs.
    Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2020
  • And with that said, nothing can compare to the exhilaration of getting to build a world.
    Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Sheer exhilaration at the breakout from the lockdown must have been among the mass emotions of the summer.
    David Bromwich, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • In a photo taken at the summit, the siblings smiled, each in a bright suit, the air light with their exhilaration.
    Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • But if the 59 steps up the tower are terrifying, the exhilaration of the 33-foot plunge to the water below more than makes up for the fright.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
  • Can it be sensed by anyone straight, the exhilaration of a young street hooker?
    Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Even in the midst of exhilaration, the Orioles take a business-like approach.
    Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2017
  • And in Connecticut, the story of the night should be pure exhilaration.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 30 July 2021
  • Once the listener gets behind the trio’s sheer fury, a sense of exhilaration comes through.
    Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 22 Sep. 2017
  • So what is the feeling of the as-yet-unmade choice — fear, exhilaration, or delay?
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 26 May 2022
  • The exhilaration in that locker room was the exact same.
    Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Will the exhilaration of those hooves thundering down the track sweep away the lingering dread?
    Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 27 Apr. 2021
  • When a person makes a big purchase such as buying a home or car, there is a feeling of joy and exhilaration.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • That right there is the stuff, the competitive exhilaration that can’t be matched.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Don a flight suit and feel the exhilaration of skydiving – but with a little less danger than the real thing.
    Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • But exhilaration turned to fear when men in civilian clothes snatched Parra and his sister from the protest in Matanzas.
    Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Dive into all the events galore and the exhilaration brought to you by fashion’s brightest.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The thrills are the in-world details and the exhilaration of survival, many references to which make their way into onscreen Easter Eggs for fans of the game.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Bird said, with a grin that was part exhilaration, part relief.
    Wallace Matthews, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2017
  • So did our 37th president. ... Is the pain of losing greater than the exhilaration of winning?
    Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • So the sense of exhilaration over the sudden opening of new possibilities for activity, and the abrupt appearance of new wellsprings of energy might have been somewhat muted.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 28 June 2024

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