How to Use exclamation in a Sentence

exclamation

noun
  • Her unexpected announcement caused a few exclamations of surprise.
  • The exclamation has the scent of doubt.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The people who watch over you tend to talk in exclamation points.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
  • He's met with a barrage of gasps and exclamations from the show hosts.
    — Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Feel free to text with your own ex about it, with exclamation points or puke emojis.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Few great athletes get to end things with an exclamation mark.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Those schools listed above, the ones with exclamation marks next to their names?
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The breakfast nook is the open plan’s exclamation mark.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2026
  • That would be the exclamation mark, the last of the major pieces of the puzzle.
    — Paige Stables, Allure, 22 Nov. 2023
  • There are three large exclamation marks at the end, with their dots dangling below them.
    — Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
  • In the past month, Vladimir Putin has put an exclamation mark on that point.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • In my notes from the book there are many questions like this, primal scream exclamation marks.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Do people still shout that word as an exclamation of triumph?
    — Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That’s a lot worse — and well deserving of an exclamation mark.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 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
  • Which is why that exclamation mark exists.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • There’s humor in the exclamation mark, but there’s something else, too.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
  • One of my new friends muttered an exclamation, jumped up and pursued the woman.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • The deck is silent but for the clicking of cameras and the low buzz of exclamations as a new set of lights appear.
    — Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Swapping the exclamation marks of horror for the question marks of sci-fi, this is less about scares.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 July 2022
  • Or too much filler could be injected, which could lead to labia with an exclamation mark after them.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The crowns of sequoias punctuate the tree line like bushy, green exclamation points.
    — Thayer Walker, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2016
  • 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 title earns its exclamation mark.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • The only excessive thing about it is the exclamation mark in the title.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The exclamation won a round of applause from the crowd, plus a smile and applause from Meghan herself.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
  • 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
  • The sun can hit the dewy grass and create an explosion of prisms but only the locusts make an exclamation.
    — Sara Clarkson, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019

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