How to Use excitable in a Sentence

excitable

adjective

• This can cause your baby to become drowsy, excitable, or even irritable.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 9 July 2024
• If your dog likes to take a running start before jumping into their bed (as some excitable dogs do), this bed also has non-slip material on the bottom to keep it in place.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 15 July 2024
• Some of the excitable youths even laid down and appeared still for a few brief moments.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al, 19 Mar. 2020
• The excitable mutt then turned on the style by evading those that tried to spoil its fun with great agility and pace.
  — SI.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• In turn, the EEG arises from the excitable nature of nerve cells, or neurons.
  — Giridhar Kalamangalam, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
• Tim Ryan is an excitable 42-year-old film savant with a mop of reddish hair.
  — Simon Van Zuylen Wood, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• That excitable ruckus that teenage boys tend to make when playing Fortnite.
  — Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• Soon after, one of the excitable whales slammed into the side of his boat, leaving him shaken.
  — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• The Frenchman was the most excitable, but appeared to have no idea what was happening.
  — SI.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• There's a lot to like about this Auburn team, its magical run this season and its excitable coach.
  — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Lamar, the slightly more excitable of the two, talks over his big sister, but catches himself.
  — Maria Sestito, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2020
• The door opens and out bounds the welcoming committee: an excitable snow white Malt-Tzu.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2023
• One little girl sits in the grass and hugs Miriam, an excitable, floppy eared princess who loves to be cuddled.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 30 May 2022
• Some were burrowed into the small, plastic cave-like dwellings that sat at the bottom of their tanks — hiding from the hoots and hollers of excitable tourists.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• Younger brains are a little more excitable, prone to fire more quickly rather than holding back, O’Connor says.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
• The theatrically excitable rap star Lil Uzi Vert asked Williams to feature on one of his songs.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Not so, yelled the excitable 27-year-old Donny Shapiro, who overheard and asked her to repeat what time she got denied.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
• The more crowded the dog park is, and the more excitable dogs are, the greater the chances are for unruly, poorly socialized, even aggressive dogs to be present.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2021
• The muscle cells would become less excitable and less likely to contract.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Mar. 2021
• The sharpest songs here could go toe-to-toe with the best in the artist’s back catalog, and the worst ones sound like excitable demos for various guitar pedals.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
• Fast forward to this week, as the same, excitable man dreams of winning the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic with the same horse in his own backyard.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2021
• Like its excitable new detectives, the show is clever and gently weird enough to make an impression.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 30 Aug. 2021
• Beard fit on the Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall floor, excitable but in command.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2021
• The excitable 9-month-old pit bull wagged his tail as his owners walked him around the parking lot of the Lake County Animal Shelter.
  — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• The parallels to today are not lost on the excitable denizens of Britain’s political class.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• The synths gallop like excitable ponies while his warm-wash vocals swoop and dip, a sweet little slice of life-support disco for the lonely.
  — Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• As the crowd grew larger and more eager Wednesday night, event staff repeatedly sought to rein in the excitable throng and clear a walking path.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
• Where Schilling is excitable and geeky, Bartusiak is dreamier in mood and more stately in tone.
  — James Ryerson, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2017
• Your sign's ruler Venus is in your emotional 4th house, and is squaring excitable Jupiter, currently in your own sign.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• Migos are excitable and have an easy way with anthems — their party is relentless and loud.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 21 May 2017

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024