How to Use excitable in a Sentence

excitable

adjective
  • Some of the excitable youths even laid down and appeared still for a few brief moments.
    Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Dogs that are hyper tend to be very excitable and often bark or jump around excessively.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Some astronomers and excitable members of the public have wondered if the star is about to explode as a supernova.
    Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Their new charge, Miri, is excitable, messy, a picky eater, affectionate, needy and kind, which endears her to her new dads (one more quickly than the other).
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • That Lux later redeemed himself with the game-winning hit was a sweet twist of fate that had the ever-excitable kid conjuring up big things.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2022
  • Some were more promising than others, but all drew dollars from excitable investors caught up in the SPAC craze, including mom—and-pop traders.
    Jonathan Randles, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023

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