How to Use exhilarated in a Sentence
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Dowling felt exhilarated and elated to see his pupil on top of the podium.
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Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Dunk seems at once exhilarated and overwhelmed.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Andrew’s Nathan Saleh has rarely felt so exhilarated after making an out.
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Patrick Z. McGavin,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2026
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The set dressing is messy and shadowy, and yet, performance-wise, Gaga has never seemed more exhilarated.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
22 Dec. 2025
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To some extent, that’s what accounts for so much of the exhilarated anticipation around his return.
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Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
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Since signing to Matador, the band has sharpened its sound into a quirky, exhilarated alt-pop, too uncanny to be dance-punk and too lively to be slacker rock.
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Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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As Figgis says, instead of crushing Coppola, the dramatic turn of events left him exhilarated.
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Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
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The band, expanded to include touring keyboardist Loren Gold, seemed exhilarated, if a little stiff at times, a first-night quibble that will surely self-correct.
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Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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The film disrobes Wintour’s mythos by peeling back that which surrounds Miranda, who bears the editor’s same chilly, soft-spoken tenor whether exhilarated or furious.
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Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
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Astronaut Nichole Ayers, who flew to space on Crew-10 in 2025, was part of the NASA broadcast team Wednesday evening and became emotional after seeing the launch surrounded by an exhilarated crowd.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2026
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