How To Use Excitable In A Sentence

  • Evidentally, this is an effective way for her to keep herself calm because she is easily excitable.
  • Maybe people are less excitable in Bicester Village. Times, Sunday Times
  • When we meet, the 45-year-old is more conventionally dressed but no less excitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • To Rich, his brother suddenly appeared as some benign leader, the merciful father taking his excitable daughters on holiday.
  • There was no good animal test to screen for the ataraxic effects, because the antihistamines made laboratory animals hyperexcitable, not calm.
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  • A host of excitable angels crowds around the manger's tiny, brightly lit doll. Times, Sunday Times
  • When the Football Focus crew opened the door to Frank Lampard's London flat, the Chelsea player had to grab the collar of his bulldog Reggie to stop the dog charging us - in the way overexcitable puppies do.
  • Never come between an excitable cow/heifer and her calf and never ever turn your back on a nervous animal in a small space.
  • He was sometimes rather excitable and sometimes very silly. Times, Sunday Times
  • If that sounds all a bit excitable, tough. Times, Sunday Times
  • He needs to be less excitable but there is no way you can knock his enthusiasm and desire to wear the Three Lions shirt. The Sun
  • Amongst so excitable a people as the Arabs, this game caused quarrels and bloodshed, hence its prohibition: and the theologians, who everywhere and at all times delight in burdening human nature, have extended the command, which is rather admonitory than prohibitive, to all games of chance. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • His coolly rationalist approach to religion was complemented by an excitable temperament and a taste for the picaresque.
  • I was a bit excitable at first. The Sun
  • Knight, somewhat blamably, keenly enjoyed sparring with the palpitating mobile creature, whose excitable nature made any such thing a species of cruelty. A Pair of Blue Eyes
  • It is not wholly convincing, despite some novel steps, and the overexcitable computer graphics are distracting. Times, Sunday Times
  • One was Mario, a huge, excitable Italian — he was like a city policeman with operatic gestures — and the other, a hairy, uncouth animal whom we called the Magyar; I think he was a Transylvanian, or something even more remote. Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Her calm nature served as a natural counterbalance to his excitable personality.
  • He was sometimes rather excitable and sometimes very silly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Potassium channels play fundamental roles in excitable cells.
  • But the blurb says its author believes his fellow countrymen were once ‘polite, unexcitable, reserved and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex life’.
  • Only once did the excitable youngster's tongue become tied, this when attempting to articulate the word ‘ambitions’, in the course of an enquiry into what he considers his to be.
  • In one episode of Frasier, his radio station decides to go for the Latino market, which means excitable men jabbering about soccer.
  • The Artisan Child is highly active, easily excitable, likes taking risks and getting into mischief.
  • A police spokeswoman said: 'The crowds were quite excitable. The Sun
  • The nervous, excitable trainee learnt some valuable lessons while the older, wiser trainee passed with flying colours. Times, Sunday Times
  • If a person has an unusually volatile, excitable or violent nature [or is drunk] he cannot rely on that as an excuse.
  • ‘There is an overly excitable mood amongst the political classes, and the game is far from clear yet,’ says one senior government source.
  • I'm so overexcitable, my brain isn't even quiet after 20 minutes, but transcendental meditation helps me make decisions more clearly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Infamous security breacher John Hirst aka Jail House points to an excitable Independent scoop with an illegitimate Tory fundraiser getting the run of the corridors of power. Houses of Parliament: Tory Bloggers Making Passes
  • Cattle from one source were calm and handled easily, whereas cattle from the other source were easily excitable and difficult to handle.
  • David and Lyuba were like ice and water: He was a composed and restrained person, and never raised his voice; she was a bundle of energy, quick-tempered and excitable.
  • One was Mario, a huge, excitable Italianhe was like a city policeman with operatic gesturesand the other, a hairy, uncouth animal whom we called the Magyar; I think he was a Transylvanian, or something even more remote. Down and Out in Paris and London
  • An overexcitable fantasist or a moaning pessimist? Times, Sunday Times
  • However, the sodium channel inactivation gates are open in the hyperpolarized virtual anode region, causing the tissue to be excitable.
  • Most of the troops are young and excitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • The horses have easily excitable nervous systems.
  • The flow of cations through the receptors rapidly depolarizes the postsynaptic membrane, and the signal is propagated along the electrically excitable membrane toward the next nerve cell.
  • DPMs consist of the gene products of what is known as the "developmental-genetic toolkit," but considered in subsets, as dynamical networks embodying physical processes characteristic of chemically and mechanically excitable meso - to macroscopic systems like cell aggregates: cohesion, viscoelasticity, diffusion, and spatio-temporal heterogeneity based on lateral inhibition, and multistable and oscillatory dynamics. ScreenTalk
  • He also had the advantage of an unexcitable, unideological nature.
  • Cellular calcium dynamics are subject to stringent spatio-temporal control, especially in excitable cells.
  • Statistics can be notoriously unreliable, particularly in a sport as emotionally excitable as football.
  • He spoils it with his inane partisan commentary and squeaky excitable voice. Times, Sunday Times
  • We were nearing the classroom where Mr. Pegro, the most unexcitable teacher at Battle Ground Academy droned about various aspects of history and current events.
  • Other studies demonstrated wavelength-dependent responses in excitable cells.
  • This in turn, increased by his excitable and nervous disposition, brought on migraines. Christianity Today
  • The authors review excitable membrane potentials and neurotransmitters.
  • They all seemed safe, unexcitable and reassuringly full of themselves.
  • They are "excitable" -- you know, like children are. John Knefel: Barack Obama's Disturbing Pattern of Condescension Towards the Left
  • Inside, in a church hall, a less excitable crowd of school pupils sat waiting. Times, Sunday Times
  • In epilepsy sufferers, the brain is hyperexcitable, meaning that when stimulated there is a much bigger increase in neuronal firing than in a normal brain. Times, Sunday Times
  • The path which is safe and harmless for the dull and inexcitable -- the mere animals of the human race -- is beset with dangers for the ardent, the enthusiastic, the intellectual. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
  • So far, models for electrically excitable cells only could predict enhancement of calcium load during release.
  • Heart cells, like other electrically excitable cells, become inexcitable for a brief period after each action potential.
  • A host of excitable angels crowds around the manger's tiny, brightly lit doll. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a well-marked distinction between the excitable and what I will call the accumulative temperament in patients. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
  • The band's communal bond with the excitable crowd was crucial to the performance, and almost more important than the music. Times, Sunday Times
  • He drank round the clock, became tense, excitable and uninterested in what he himself had created.
  • Any humour in the retreat was abruptly shattered by the loud smash of a plate glass window by an excitable ram who was wilfully battering his head into it.
  • There's a word we have for friends that can be a little emotional like that: excitable.
  • The "engage" phase of the ritual is the tricky one, as there is no guarantee these excitable young men, geed on by the crowd in the fevered atmosphere of international sport, will wait for the call before diving into action with the party opposite. Square-dancing at the scrums engages full force of Brian Moore's law | Martin Kelner
  • Excitable children made a dash for the first row, only to be pushed back by equally enthusiastic adults.
  • Mary sat beside Elaine, who today seemed excitable.
  • A Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV) test was performed using conventional techniques and each patient was categorized as primary demyelinating, primary axonal, inexcitable, equivocal, or normal using published criteria PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The president, meanwhile, seemed excitable, edgy and sometimes ungrounded.
  • He appears remarkably unruffled, even after another day of questions, more questions, excitable headlines and warnings that the 178-year-old institution is on the slippery slope.
  • I was a bit excitable at first. The Sun
  • Everyone knows that terriers are excitable, that pit bulls bite and that all pups urinate on the carpet.
  • A chest of drawers, say, or an excitable Bouvier des Flandres. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
  • Stray ragworm wound their excitable way to land, before diving below the sandy surface in fear of their lives.
  • Everyone knows that terriers are excitable, that pit bulls bite and that all pups urinate on the carpet.
  • He is a very excitable young man who absolutely loves what he does.
  • She was an excitable young arachnophobe from the big city. Globe and Mail
  • In any case, the minister has since, as I noted above, artfully backed away from his previous excitable fulminations.
  • ** Show title must be uttered in excitable British accent. Zenyatta whips boys in Breeders' Cup Classic: Could 'Dancing With the Stars' be next? | EW.com
  • Maybe people are less excitable in Bicester Village. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kevin, take a break from excitable, bewhiskered German philosophers of the 19th century!
  • For the most part, he's very inexcitable and subsequently unphased by any threat.
  • That the nervous system in Mrs. Carlyle was all along unstable and excitable is indicated by her intolerance of noise of all kinds, which was as great as that of her husband, and by her sleeplessness, which was even worse than his. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • He also has a slightly excitable, childlike quality. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is no excitable music; there is no folderol. Times, Sunday Times
  • He spoils it with his inane partisan commentary and squeaky excitable voice. Times, Sunday Times
  • The easily excitable man with the curly hair has decided to join myself and Jared in this little experiment and has already posted his first song.
  • It was a ludicrous, overexcitable statement, the sort that comes when rage short-circuits the synapses of rational thought. Times, Sunday Times
  • Grounded and unexcitable, Neilson says he is taking nothing for granted.
  • Comrade Blas Roca, who was an inseparable comrade in the struggle, a close friend and Lazaro Pena's political leader, wrote about him in 1938 the following beautiful lines: I met Lazaro Pena when he was already a union leader, when he was already a leader of the labor movement beloved by all for his inexcitable attitude, for his extraordinary courage in collective decisions, for his loyalty to the principles that he advocates and for his honesty in the defense of the interests of his class. CASTRO DELIVERS EULOGY FOR LAZARO PENA
  • ‘At last,’ he exclaimed, in an excitable way, ‘a bid of £25,000 from Mr Clarkson. Now. Who'll give me £26,000?’
  • an unexcitable temperament
  • Elsewhere there's excitable talk of hydrogen, bioethanol, fuel cells, hybrids.
  • This in turn, increased by his excitable and nervous disposition, brought on migraines. Christianity Today
  • Even the inexcitable old doctor had felt the attraction which had already conquered three such dissimilar people as Alban Morris, Cecilia I Say No
  • Such erratic behaviour, it would emerge, was typical of Wilson, a man known in the local community as being a quiet, if excitable, young man, of rather low intelligence.
  • In the first phase of his public career before 1914 he was widely regarded as a young man in a hurry who was self-centred and excitable.
  • A sort of jaunty 1920s army major: monocle, huge moustache, laugh like a tombola full of excitable ducks. This week's new singles
  • Bayer was a passionate, excitable activist with boundless energy and a huge grassroots network of local contacts at his disposal.
  • Dogs can, of course, become extremely excitable at this stage. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • Over an exclusive telephone conversation, the ever excitable Matt Alden confided in my shell-like ears that he's incredibly excited about the new venture.
  • I was greeted at the front desk of the New York State Labor Office by the usual inexcitable nose-picking troglodyte.
  • Bayer was a passionate, excitable activist with boundless energy and a huge grassroots network of local contacts at his disposal.
  • His work on the trio of overlapping roles has won him justified praise from the normally unexcitable trade press in Cannes this past week.
  • Lots of excitable fashion blogs took this to mean the return of stonewash jeans, but they were missing the point. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dogs can, of course, become extremely excitable at this stage. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • There is no doubt that he was in a highly excitable condition just now.
  • Former excitable Packer matured quickly into the most dynamic quarterback in the league.
  • It's okay, though, it's not like you're hideously bad, just a bit overexcitable, which you always will be. Times, Sunday Times
  • Where else but my established favorite place of relaxation, where my ever excitable brain can, and often does, fall peacefully asleep in mid-debate.
  • What should be examined is how does the person answer questions, how does she/he respond to controversial decisions, is she/he willing to accept that some opponents will be offended regardless, does the person have well restrained temperament or is she/he very excitable and erratic, and is the person well informed about the subject matter at hand. Clinton: Vetting process for administration jobs 'a nightmare'
  • Former excitable Packer matured quickly into the most dynamic quarterback in the league.
  • A large number of other properties of the nerve fibres vary with the speed of conduction, for instance, the duration of the impulse, its rate of rise, its size, the duration of the inexcitable or refractory period following each impulse, the threshold of excitation, the sensitivity of the discharge to pressure on the nerve and to asphyxia, in short, an array of properties connected with impulse conduction all of which need not vary in an exactly parallel manner. Physiology or Medicine 1944 - Presentation Speech
  • The most easily excitable ones immediately interpreted his comments to mean that he thought women were dumb.
  • In the film, transferred to video by my technologically excitable family, Poppa is walking in his backyard garden.
  • Voltage-sensitive Na + channels are responsible for the upstroke of the action potential in excitable cells.
  • She is very kind and friendly, but a bit excitable.
  • Once the heat of the day has passed and the sun starts to set, a steady trickle of excitable youngsters drag their parents and grandparents to the banks of the river.
  • She was caring, naive, impulsive and easily excitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Research has shown even casual smoking during pregnancy can make newborn babies jittery, more excitable and more difficult to console than babies born to non-smokers.
  • Why is everyone getting into such an excitable lather over the predictable remarks of a no-mark?
  • But when you work in IT like i do it doesn't matter when your most "excitable" when ever the system goes down you better be able to fix it. Peak Performance Times For Morning People And Night Owls | Lifehacker Australia
  • Norton was sensitive and excitable, though he never lost his head, while Kreis and Hamilton were like a pair of cold-blooded savages, seeking out tender places to prod and poke.
  • Inside, in a church hall, a less excitable crowd of school pupils sat waiting. Times, Sunday Times
  • With all the excitable glee of a slightly gawky teenager, she waves the bouquet above her head, showing it off to the rest of us like a trophy, the years visibly slipping away.
  • I suppose it is the result of falling in love with an inexcitable sort of a woman, that I had rather sit here and talk quietly than waltz.
  • Being an excitable sort of race there is an incredible number of things we would like to show you.
  • Well firstly I can't escape the impression that the excitable kid is getting a bit carried away.
  • Not a bad premise: broken-down school bus, excitable teens, violent farmer, flesh-eating monster.
  • When we meet, the 45-year-old is more conventionally dressed but no less excitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the lawsuit, he said he was unfairly labelled excitable, emotional and unable to control his anger. The Times of India
  • (My copy of this report from the FBI reading room expunged this informant's comments about Lt. G's "excitable" nature.) Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
  • First, lots of excitable tissues have narrow calcium channels and multiple connections.
  • A man is sometimes very excitable and prone to anger for trivial reasons.
  • The voltage-gated Na + channel is critical for depolarization and conduction in most excitable cells.
  • Once again, plenty of turn-out time and correct feeding for the type of work the horse is doing, will help to calm an excitable temperament.
  • The band's communal bond with the excitable crowd was crucial to the performance, and almost more important than the music. Times, Sunday Times
  • Henry was too thankful for being permitted to enjoy her presence to forfeit the boon by any untractableness, and, for one of his excitable temperament, he was exceedingly docile. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue
  • We had three generations of farmers, all their dogs, our excitable puppy and two drivers running around the courtyard trying to load/grab/get-out-of-the-way-of Rhiannon as she bucked and kicked and whinnied. BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Where Ideas Come From: Life
  • Mary sat beside Elaine, who today seemed excitable.
  • Being excitable is not helpful in dealing with a direct or indirect attack and discredits all the good work.
  • The nervous, excitable trainee learnt some valuable lessons while the older, wiser trainee passed with flying colours. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nerve cells are excitable - that is, they respond to stimuli.
  • As I say, the young are high-strung, nervous, excitable; the middle - aged are empty-headed, stolid, and stupid. THE GHETTO
  • Some days I feel ecstatic and very excitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • When that happened he would chant or be very overexcitable. The Sun
  • Even the inexcitable old doctor had felt the attraction which had already conquered three such dissimilar people as Alban Morris, Cecilia Wyvil, and Francine de Sor.
  • They are passionate, excitable and talkative about all sport - at least sport as it is played Down Under where, by the way, this column is coming to you from.
  • It is demonstrated that gel-immobilized cell organelles reveal features of an excitable medium.
  • Even with classics backing him up, the star here is Batta, an excitable deejay who effortlessly deflates all the pressure of the dub and turns the record into an almost joyous celebration.
  • He was almost boringly phlegmatic, as unexcitable as a drugged sloth. MURDER SONG
  • Voltage-gated sodium channels are found in most excitable tissues like nerve, heart, and muscle.
  • In all large Persian towns there is a numerous class of 'roughs' known as the _kullah-numdah_ (felt-caps; they wear a brown hard-felt low hat without a brim), excitable and reckless, and always ready for disturbance. Persia Revisited
  • I too listened to the broadcast and although Lee Barnes came across as "excitable" he made some very good points. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Norton was sensitive and excitable, though he never lost his head, while Kreis and Hamilton were like a pair of cold-blooded savages, seeking out tender places to prod and poke.
  • The White House wasted no time in naming BP as the "responsible party" and the more excitable of Wall Street's analysts sounded dire warnings that the company was destined for bankruptcy, or at least permanent banishment from business in the US. BP's behaviour was shameful. But it wasn't the only one to blame for the gulf disaster
  • The nervous, excitable trainee learnt some valuable lessons while the older, wiser trainee passed with flying colours. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fans who showed up seemed interested mostly in booing excitable guard Richie Incognito after one of his four penalties. USATODAY.com
  • Such children are unrhythmic, and it will generally be noticed that these children are stiff and awkward, often also over-excitable. The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze
  • They have to be more patient, less emotional, more deliberative, less excitable.
  • Her calm nature served as a natural counterbalance to his excitable personality.
  • Pig, as he is called , is very excitable.
  • (confirmed later by Pratt) because it was the first direct evidence of the ungraded character of the wave of activity in excitable tissues other than the heart. Edgar Adrian - Nobel Lecture
  • A puppy is naturally affectionate and excitable.
  • He needs to be less excitable but there is no way you can knock his enthusiasm and desire to wear the Three Lions shirt. The Sun
  • Dr. Jacob Levitt, an associate professor at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and himself a periodic paralysis patient: In brief, it is a neuromuscular ion channelopathy where the voltage gating gets perturbed due to a mutation such that imbalances in potassium, inside and outside the cell, cause the voltage gate to shut off, rendering the muscle membrane inexcitable and thereby causing paralysis. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The nervous, excitable trainee learnt some valuable lessons while the older, wiser trainee passed with flying colours. Times, Sunday Times
  • Always excitable and often insubordinate, he required the strictest discipline.
  • Voltage-gated channels are essential proteins for the functioning of excitable tissues.
  • If that sounds all a bit excitable, tough. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is the most excitable part of the neuron and the site at which the nerve impulse is initiated.
  • It is not true, she says, that the English are not emotional or excitable.
  • Most of the troops are young and excitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • These days, Huggins is the farthest thing from "excitable" -- off the court, at least. SI.com
  • According to an excitable tabloid, he viewed the murder as good material for a future book.
  • A police spokeswoman said: 'The crowds were quite excitable. The Sun
  • K + channels are a large and diverse group of proteins that occur in most membranes of excitable and inexcitable cells.
  • Adam is an inexcitable 28-year-old who works at the local Seattle public radio station and never takes risks.
  • She was caring, naive, impulsive and easily excitable. Times, Sunday Times

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