How to Use exclamation in a Sentence

exclamation

noun

• Her unexpected announcement caused a few exclamations of surprise.
• That would be the exclamation mark, the last of the major pieces of the puzzle.
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 22 Nov. 2023
• And there were, like, exclamation points in the e-mail.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
• To get around that sticky mess, the founders stuck an exclamation point at the end and Yahoo! was off to the races.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
• The shot was the exclamation mark on a big comeback for UAA.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2023
• On a 1-and-1 pitch, Bogaerts launched a three-run homer that put the exclamation mark on the evening.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2019
• In the past month, Vladimir Putin has put an exclamation mark on that point.
  — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• The people who watch over you tend to talk in exclamation points.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
• But back-to-back dunks by Allen Flanigan and Jaylin Williams helped put an exclamation mark on the win.
  — Giana Han, al, 6 Mar. 2021
• 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 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
• Those schools listed above, the ones with exclamation marks next to their names?
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2018
• The exclamation won a round of applause from the crowd, plus a smile and applause from Meghan herself.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
• 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
• Less than a year later, the exclamation point was back.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 June 2017
• The comment cards on this one had a lot of exclamation points: creamy! tart! amazing!
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 7 Aug. 2017
• 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
• In the seventh, Pompano's Michael Schuler added an exclamation point, driving in two with a base hit in the hole.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 May 2017
• Swapping the exclamation marks of horror for the question marks of sci-fi, this is less about scares.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 July 2022
• Trout hit a solo home run in his first at-bat, his 27th of the season, and put an exclamation mark on it with a big fist pump.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
• Musk replied to Libs of TikTok’s post on X with two exclamation marks.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Feel free to text with your own ex about it, with exclamation points or puke emojis.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• After his first exclamation on the floor, Freeman paused and stared into the crowd of 1,598.
  — Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
• 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
• So Curry's shoes felt like an exclamation mark on the trip.
  — Hunter Schwarz, CNN, 14 Apr. 2018
• In my notes from the book there are many questions like this, primal scream exclamation marks.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• On Sunday, the president fired off a series of all-capped-and-exclamation-point-laden tweets that were all over the place.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 21 May 2018
• The gunshot at the end of the album cut version of the song kind of served as the exclamation point of this composition that many knew all too well.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 30 June 2017
• Saturday’s game put an exclamation mark on Wells’ solid end to the first half.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
• My statement was more of a comma than an exclamation in our dialogue.
  — Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024