How To Use Exclamation point In A Sentence

  • It was easy to imagine legions of Internet-era Andrew Marvells staying up late in fluorescent-lit cubicles appending metaphysical exclamation points to celebrity photo captions that would rocket readers ever closer to the celestial objects of their desire: Shooting Britney
  • A larger magazine asked me to stylize my writing more; add more descriptives; use more dashes and exclamation points. Wordflab Surgery: How to Put Your Writing Under the Knife | Write to Done
  • The only way to battle it is to put more exclamation points! Times, Sunday Times
  • Oscar, as the WBO champion, would put an exclamation point on his career if he were able to add the other three belts to his laurels.
  • A film with music every five minutes is like a novel with ten exclamation points on every page - yet we, who would be embarrassed by a surfeit of exclamations, accept such musical slop unblinkingly.
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  • Be careful about your use of punctuation, particularly exclamation points.
  • Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. Criss Jami 
  • It announces a death penalty of guilt on our heads without lifting an exclamation point to give us assistance. Christianity Today
  • This song of himself is filled with exclamation points and pat truisms, however.
  • She thought in exclamation points. Anne of Green Gables
  • DO NOT use exclamation points and all caps to emphasize!
  • It was the exclamation point for the first 5-0 homestand in franchise history.
  • Wikipedia describes it well: "a nonstandard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark or exclamation point (known in printers 'jargon as the bang)". Daring Fireball
  • Maybe I feel like putting exclamation points! Times, Sunday Times
  • When overused, the exclamation point loses its impact '. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now the first bolt of lightning stabs the earth. It is heaven's exclamation point 3.
  • Chanos attacked the documents, filling the margins with exclamation points and notations, and marking dubious footnotes with yellow Post-its.
  • Without Leos Carax's all-caps MERDE between them, the sad, introversive films by Michel Gondry and Bong Joon-ho might make the exclamation point at the end of the title seem ironic. Paul Snyder: Tense Times in Tokyo! Town
  • Use upright perennials such as gerbera, golden marguerite, and snapdragon for exclamation points of color.
  • Multiple exclamation points have their place - in amongst hearts and flowers and smileys and emoticons and xxxx and x0x0x0x0 (to the uninitiated that's hugs and kisses) - in other words ‘nice, girly gossip’.
  • As a sort of exclamation point, Jesus then uses the apocalyptic imagery we have today.
  • I happen to have series one and three - if anyone has series 2, let me know ... the following descriptions are from the Nebulous fansite, Nebulous City - and they love exclamation points!! Jan. 12th, 2009 - Issue 0.034
  • Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. Criss Jami 
  • Then she received the candidate's thank-you note, laced with words like "hiya" and "thanx," along with three exclamation points and a smiley-face emoticon. Thx for the IView!
  • Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. Criss Jami 
  • She's been turning ATP against my exclamation points! Times, Sunday Times
  • It is widely believed that today's exclamation point comes from the Latin word io ` joy ', with the one letter placed above the other.) VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
  • His exclamation point was a 56-yard touchdown reception from Otton in the third quarter.
  • In places where I would be steady, she would add an exclamation point. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now the first bolt of lightning stabs the earth. It is heaven's exclamation point 3.

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