How To Use Exclamatory In A Sentence
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Opener ‘Feather By Feather’ ends with an exclamatory chorus, hinting that perhaps our hero's finally found the perfect match.
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When he was given a turn a few minutes later, Jimmy White, seen-it-all-before doyen of the green baize, offered a rather less exclamatory: "Yeah, I think it's good.
Ronnie O'Sullivan crowned prince of the new Power Snooker generation
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Not that I'm going out of my way looking for bad press, but even the grumpiest rock critics haven't typed anything except exclamatory, flowery and glowing reviews of this magnificent pop six-piece.
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By the time he finished his exclamatory remark I was doubled over with laughter spilling out between my lips.
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His vocalising tends to come in louder passages, like the brusque opening of the finale of Beethoven's F sharp major Sonata Op 78, and is more of an exclamatory or even explosive release.
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Indeed, the waters - and the menus - are full of fish with exclamatory names like wahoo and mahi-mahi.
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They pile on every Paulson story the O runs and start pumping out shrill, exclamatory, barking comments day and night.
Strike 2 (Jack Bog's Blog)
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In the margins of some of these Adam had made exclamatory notations.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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Everything he saw'the weeds, the broken glass, the clumps of bricks'seemed to stand forth with a kind of exclamatory force.
The Waste Lands
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And the exclamatory change in skin hue could help to alleviate the lack of super-power dazzle.
Should Will Smith Play Captain America? – Collider.com
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Playful punkety rocker Atom and His Package wrote in with exclamatory praise and a promise to send submissions of his own visual art.
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Coincidentally, I noticed one of those exclamatory weekly magazines on the news-stand.
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Yet another suggestion is that the book should be called ‘The Testimony of Solomon,’ capturing the possible legal and religious connotations of assembly, but this seems excessively formal for the author's exclamatory and spiky style.
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Great men have great idiosyncrasies, and the stubbornness with which Wolfe reproduces his exclamatory voice after it has been mimicked so many times makes it appear less a fault than a flourish.
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Structurally, he makes excellent use of run-on sentences for exclamatory emphasis; doubled lines (or more often quadrupled hiccups) propel his best songs.
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That version can't be used predicatively: "This is big deal" might be the boast of a Russian who never mastered the English determiner system, but it's not something that a native speaker would say "to express contempt for something regarded as impressive by another person". idiomatic contempt aside, the anarthrous exclamatory fragment "big deal" is syntactically regular, in that there are lots of other adjective+noun combinations used in a similar way.
Language Log
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McKinnon was not a man much given to exclamatory outbursts.
SAN ANDREAS
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Valery conveys a sense of the viewer's charged state and the imminent darkness in his exclamatory tones, alternating lines with choppy rhythms with those that hurtle towards their close.
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‘I love my bed,’ confirms Greta, with an exclamatory bounce.
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The complete lack of evidence aside, it is certain that no such exclamatory tone would have been used if the pilot were Lebanese.
Patrick Galey: Flight ET409 Exposes Lebanon's Racist Underbelly
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Delta music's a lot closer to field hollers and other things, which are very exclamatory, and preacher styles too are, you know, different from region to region.
New Collection Explores 'Classic Appalachian Blues'
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She was also talking so quickly that all of her words slurred together into this large mass of exclamatory and paranoiac volumes, which took me a while to reconfigure into the actual English language.
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‘Pendejo’ is a much-loved noun, which can also become adjectival, adverbial and exclamatory.
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Tossed into an online translation tool, the error message was deciphered into nothing more than exclamatory East Bloc internet garble: ‘Note!’
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Does the writer not understand that they have given us enough, without the need to underline their bizarre message with such an exclamatory flourish?
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The anarthrous exclamatory fragments are contrained in ways that are not entirely clear to me.
Language Log
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On such occasions, he would throw back his head, shut his eyes and roar his wrath at his opponents in a most disquieting manner, and when he returned home, whether he had won or lost his fight, his paper would bristle for two or three weeks with rage, and his editorial page would be full of lurid articles written in short exclamatory sentences, pocked with italics, capital letters and black-faced lines.
In Our Town
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The viewer's voice is marked by almost disarming shifts in tone; his voice is at one moment exclamatory, at the next, subdued, and at the close of stanza fifteen, almost resigned.
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Thanks to this Photoshop job of a “real-life” Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtleby binome on Worth1000, I find my usually-indomitable vocabulary reduced to the most painful and trite of exclamatory internet cliches.
Thanks, Photoshop!: Real-Life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
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Imagine the exclamatory brevity that space travel writing might bring.
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No wonder the Italian poet Petrarch, who idolised women, could not read her letters without exclamatory annotations in the margins.
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Each piece of correspondence reads like a love letter, breathless and exclamatory.
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Avoid using words, but an occasional one-word exclamatory e.g., Victory! is okay.
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