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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024