How To Use Exhilarating In A Sentence

It's still early in the morning; the air is cool and exhilarating, and the low sun softens the landscape and transfigures the dour colours of the hills.
The place was heaving and, as the floorman for a minor boards bookie, the pulsating activity proved exhilarating. The Sun
This season's purple make-up hues are equally exhilarating: intense amethyst, fig and crushed mulberry, to name a few.
To judge by the reactions of some astronauts, walking in space was an exhilarating experience.
Conducting oral history interviews can be both exhilarating and exhausting.

Reaching the summit was only one of several exhilarating moments Creedon experienced during the climb.
It was sufficiently exhilarating to maintain our interest in the postlude performance of the original final movement, which Saint-Saëns scrapped on the frank advice of his mother. Steven Isserlis – review
The instrumental color, finely crafted elegance, and glowing sweep of the music were exhilarating.
It is exhilarating to visit these monasteries, as also the Buddhist Museum which has Buddhist relics excavated from various parts of India.
It starts exhilaratingly, as you clamber up rockfaces and glide through a rainforest. Times, Sunday Times
Owning a racehorse is an exhilarating, rewarding pursuit if you know how to play the game. How To Buy & Sell just about Everything
Let's agree that it is beneficial to invest in exhilarating public buildings.
What that would tell Woodward was all about the porous defences rather than exhilarating attacks.
The exhilarating zip is all thanks to its remarkable 261bhp engine – the same engine that appears in Audi's S3 and Golf's R. Car review: Seat Leon Cupra R
I believe there is nothing more to be said or done to-night, "responded the duke, in a desponding tone -- for it _cannot_ be an exhilarating anticipation to have to get up in the morning and stand up to murder, or be murdered, even where the duellist is the bravest of men, backed by the serenest of seconds. The Lost Lady of Lone
It starts exhilaratingly, as you clamber up rockfaces and glide through a rainforest. Times, Sunday Times
Coupled with the latest digital technology, the result is dazzling imagery and exhilarating animation.
When two writers are involved who happen to be great contemporary poets, artistic equals, the material that explodes out of the depths is bound to be incandescent, exhilarating, unearthly and passionate. Ted Hughes's final lines to Sylvia Plath bring closure to a tragic tale
The ride in the six-wheel drive vehicle high into the ranges is an exhilarating experience and great fun.
The game delivers an exhilarating thrill ride down huge wave faces and into barreling tubes, allowing gamers to pull off unbelievable moves.
He was hard at work on his magnum opus: a painting, six feet tall, of the Savior's slaughter on the cross, a feral Pollockian image simultaneously repelling and exhilarating; the colors clamored in crimsons and yellows, blacks and speckled, blue blots.
For most Africans, independence has meant more a desperate struggle for survival than an exhilarating path to development.
The result is a strange display of exhilarating liberation paired with unsettling sordidness.
Show your support and love of boating by choosing the card that depicts an exhilarating ride on a powerboat or the card that features a sailboat with spinnaker flying.
Both routes of feeding were physically unnatural and all I wanted was that exhilarating feeling of smelling, tasting and savouring food in my mouth again.
Defiance and resistance are exhilarating short-term stimuli and endeavors; they are not sustainable, long-term policy programs or national visions. Rami khouri : right but who’s listening
To be at Ground Zero with Jackie was the most exhilarating experience I will ever have.
The instrumental color, finely crafted elegance, and glowing sweep of the music were exhilarating.
To be a young American artist in post-World War II Paris must have been exhilarating.
These two wounded souls conduct a strange, exhilarating, pitiful love affair, with a tragic outcome.
Exhilarating and highly infectious, this young Canadian folk six-piece present an anthology of Quebecois dance tunes, Celtic reels and world music.
Edmund Burke, in his treatise A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756), described the sublime as an evocation of anxiety in the face of nature, an exhilarating but fraught recognition of its illimitable power over humankind. Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation
And in a true testimony to the power of the narrative, knowledge of the eventual outcome detracts nothing from the exhilarating story.
The vibrant music and the exhilarating beat of the tribals were infectious and soon many in the audience, including yours truly, were beating a tattoo on the floor.
It's one of the most exhilarating stories in modern Australian biology: how a giant tree, once thought to be extinct, was discovered somewhere in the central tablelands of New South Wales.
The whole process develops a flow that every client and reader has described as exhilarating and invigorating and energizing. SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life
His prose is as easeful and exhilarating as his energy and attitude. Times, Sunday Times
Yet to quote these entries out of context is to miss Derek's exhilarating sense of courage and stoicism when under the stress of physical and mental impairment.
But given a chance to become a habit, the exhilarating experience of freedom enriches and ennobles people.
Fluid images of tree limbs sweeping across the other set of frames recall exhilarating strokes of sumi ink painting.
Games to cap a campaign that could be described as exhilarating due to WN.com - Articles related to XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India October 3-14, 2010
It provides exhilarating fun and a richly designed and often quite funny re-exploration of movies past.
At the same time, there was an exhilarating account of the infinite in Georg Cantor's set theory.
If I can conquer the relentless rows of switchbacks stretching ahead of me, the payoff will be an exhilarating descent into Altdorf, the ledgendary stomping ground of Wilhelm Tell. Alpine Cycling Without (Much) Pain
One of the most tedious jobs I ever did at The Board was to look after the narrow fabrics industry: ribbons, bootlaces, elastics etc - not the most exhilarating of fields to work in.
His voice was exhilarating, thrilling beyond any description.
That's why the killer bounce-and-rebound in Mario is a thousand times more satisfying than bottom-stomping baddies in a dozen other platformers, and why slicing enemies into chunks in Ninja Gaiden, screaming down out of the sky, dragon sword glinting in the neon and cherry blossom, is just more effective and exhilarating than chopping up chumps in other fighting games. Eurogamer
The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
I will also try to describe why, after a decade of using Macintosh, I still find it exhilarating.
The instrumental color, finely crafted elegance, and glowing sweep of the music were exhilarating.
As the rototiller churns over the topsoil, its obvious fecundity is exhilarating. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
Wonderland is an exhilarating, energetic film which combines a documentary feel with excellent performances.
The story - and it is a big, dense, messy, colorful, kaleidoscopic, exhilarating, depressing story - is told with political acumen, reportorial vividness and narrative flair.
Seeing a martial arts flic without all the CGI flare was hugely refreshing, and exhilarating in a way that movies like Ninja Assassin simply can't replicate. Indie Trailer Sunday: Teaser Trailer for Tony Jaa's Ong Bak 3 « FirstShowing.net
Visiting India, as an eight year old was one of the most jaw-dropping and exhilarating experiences I have ever had.
I could visualise all the spotty first-years outside, in tears because they had missed out on tickets to an exhilarating show that had sold out earlier that afternoon.
The driver gave a single safety instruction "Hold on tight, you're going to get wet", then hurtled down a canyon at high speed, leaning the boat perilously—unbelievably, and exhilaratingly—close to the cliff walls. High-Flying Adventure
He leaned over as he spoke, and, laying hold of the rigging, descended to the deck, while the mate took his breath in short, exhilarating gasps. Many Cargoes
This is an ambitious, large-hearted, exhilarating novel that leaves you wanting more. Times, Sunday Times
Those trademark ostinatos can become overwhelming, but when the band hit their stride, the results are nothing less than exhilarating. Times, Sunday Times
Many readers, whose lives carry them back before the "forties," taking their stand beneath the broad gateway or pebbled court-yard of our old inns -- the Red Lion, the Bull, or the Crown -- would require a very slight effort of memory to recall the exhilarating spectacle of the arrival and departure of the stage coach of fifty or sixty years ago. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
The spiritual journey is fraught with danger, full of unexpected twists, at times deeply discouraging, at times exhilarating.
Despite my earlier reluctance to face the wintry conditions, it was curiously exhilarating to battle through the snowdrifts and clouds and arrive by the summit tor just as the clouds broke.
We are aswirl in a delirious dance of motion, emotion, an exhilarating carnival ride of heady smells and riotous color. Donna Henes: Spring Fever!
So exhilarating was it that rose-coloured spectacles prevented me from seeing what should have been immediately apparent: that I could not continue to edit the magazine responsibly and professionally with the other demands upon me.
Lest anyone suspect that her head was turned by the exhilarating successes of the past year, however, she called her fledgling venture Abishag Productions. Katherine Heigl
If he wants to be danced, we see that he has discovered that gaiety is exhilarating to us; if he refuses to be moved, we take notice that he fears to fatigue us. Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
Yet to me in the open air, most scantily draped and wearing a frayed, loopholed, and battered straw hat, the sunbath had been a pleasant and exhilarating indulgence in no way remarkable on the score of temperature. My Tropic Isle
Talk about a care package: DJ Neville Chamberlain received "over 40 new records in the mail from Sao Paulo last week," just in time for the latest installment of Brazilian Rhythms at Saint-Ex, which remains one of the sweatiest, groovingest, most exhilarating dance parties around. Nightlife Agenda: Paul Oakenfold, Michael Mayer and outdoor parties
I couldn't help contrast the boredom with United's exhilarating 4-3 encounter with Liverpool some years back, also in Belfast.
Dyer's mystical demonism accounts for the ambivalent, exhilarating, and uncanny dimension of his architecture.
Thirty exhilarating minutes later, we were at the ice camp.
True, what's exhilarating to one person is frustrating to another, so when one considers the vast and growing array of advanced automotive engineering materials it can either look pretty baffling or extremely bounteous.
So exhilarating was it that rose-coloured spectacles prevented me from seeing what should have been immediately apparent: that I could not continue to edit the magazine responsibly and professionally with the other demands upon me.
(_To the_ 2ND PHYSICIAN) Come, let us begin the cure; and, through the exhilarating sweetness of harmony, let us dulcify, lenify, and pacify the acrimony of his spirits, which, I see, are ready to be inflamed. Monsieur De Pourceaugnac
Despite my earlier reluctance to face the wintry conditions, it was curiously exhilarating to battle through the snowdrifts and clouds and arrive by the summit just as the clouds broke.
On another occasion the return to civilization was less exhilarating.
Frida is exhilarating because the director finds magically creative ways to depict the artist's inner reality.
It was exhilarating to get a lesson in pronunciation from a gentleman who said _boult_ for bolt, called St. John _Sin 'Jun_, and did not know how to pronounce the beautiful name of his own college at Oxford. Ponkapog Papers
We have just got some exhilarating news.
Her journey to an implausibly remote and impenetrable part of Wales, presided over by a strange and dangerous cult, is pacey and exhilarating enough, if a tad formulaic. Crime roundup – reviews
It is exhilarating and I can see how some teams that lack moral clarity and have a weakness of leadership can take this sense of empowerment and use it as an excuse to bash women, rort the salary cap and generally act like dicks etc. Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 23 April
One had to earn the right to surf beneath the dangerous pier, with it's exhilarating waves and threatening jagged rocks.
Visiting Scandinavians apologised for the behaviour of Vikings - all to the exhilarating accompaniment of lively Irish reels!
Travelling the information highway can be an exhilarating journey, but for many it can also be like flying blind.
A clean-cut chilled gazpacho made an exhilarating appetiser, its sharp tomato edge juxtaposed with a mellow, voluptuous quenelle of crab and avocado.
Fluid images of tree limbs sweeping across the other set of frames recall exhilarating strokes of sumi ink painting.
The book, by being both depressing and exhilarating gave mordant insight into the Edinburgh housing projects where the writer grew up.
No candidate is more emotionally prepared for the exhilarating highs and debilitating lows of a presidential marathon.
But because its Aleksandar Hemon, the stories extend far beyond the immigrant experience; each one is punctuated with unexpected humor and spins out in fabulist, exhilarating directions, ultimately building to an insightful, often heartbreaking conclusion. Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
In the space of an exhilarating month the US tactics in Afghanistan have suddenly borne fruit.
This phenomenon is more exhilarating to me than the luxuriance and fertility of vineyards.
Once able to excite listeners into an exhilarating sort of exultation at the peak of their fury, the group even seemed cognizant of the fact that this sort of template is proving less tenable.
Moving from college to career can be energizing, intimidating, exhilarating, exhausting.
So exhilarating was Joker's early output, he was able to get away with calling it not dubstep but "purple"; a name with the unintended consequence of making you think either of chocolate-box poetry or brutally potent marijuana. Joker: The Vision – review
It was exhilarating to get a lesson in pronunciation from a gentleman who said boult for bolt, called St. John Sin 'Jun, and did not know how to pronounce the beautiful name of his own college at Oxford. Ponkapog Papers.
Hong Kong in the late seventies was an exhilarating place to be. TIME OF THE WOLF
Exhilarating tribute to the great Buddy Holly.
The journey back downstream was even more exhilarating as the force of the water at the various cascades threatened to sweep you off your feet.
He wanted to extend as long as possible the moment of hope, the exhilarating oasis of possibility. DOUBTING THOMAS
She acknowledges that displacement here no longer spells exile; it can mean instead an exhilarating sense of life at the interstices.
Thailand confirmed their status as top dogs at the Southeast Games with their table-topping display -- but an inquest has already started into why they did Games to cap a campaign that could be described as exhilarating due to WN.com - Articles related to Families come out tops in Asia in recession - survey
Our first parachute jump was an exhilarating experience.
The smooth, hour-long journey along the highway with tunes blaring was exhilarating but strangely relaxing.
The Ulster-born poet's fondness for obscure consonance, half-rhymes and visual rhymes has become an instantly identifiable signature, mostly exhilarating, sometimes galling, even pretentious.
In the context of his late work, Nemesis – if it's not too sinister to say so – is a breath of fresh air, because polio provides Roth with a new, outward-looking and substantial subject around which his writing can thrive; and, perhaps for this reason, the book contains many of the things that I find most exhilarating in his work. Nemesis by Philip Roth
pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance
They say the best way to experience the falls is by taking an exhilarating jet boat ride.
The music is, as usual, extremely complex, enthralling and exhilarating.
Minor industry tiffs aside, it's been an exhilarating 12 months for the band.
It was evident that they were happy and contented in their alpine home, in the upper story of the world, the rare, cool, exhilarating air, the majestic panoramas, and the unlimited freedom all contributing to the blithesomeness of their spirits. Our Bird Comrades
It is exhilarating, like the first glimpse of green grass when entering a baseball stadium.
It was an exhilarating moment as the chopper seemed to come out of nowhere with its low engine roar reverberating across the valleys, echoing back and forth.
Again tormented to the very end by the veteran Bucks, Orlando blew a 14-point lead in the final five minutes of regulation, but rode a heroic effort from Tracy McGrady in overtime for a 121-116 victory that was equal parts stunning and exhilarating for the sellout crowd at TD Waterhouse Centre. USATODAY.com - Magic sweat out overtime win to avoid sweep
the exhilarating effect of mountain air
In a one-day taster of paragliding with Active Edge, I manage to achieve several exhilarating flights, but not without some thorough grounding first.
Quite the opposite, it's a funny and exhilarating movie, which has evidently been made with much care and attention.
An exhilarating mixture of fear, wonderment and primal curiosity overcame their usual normal response to such an occurrence.
His posts consist of exhilaratingly unpunctuated pseudo-stream-of-consciousness accounts of his weekends - with particular reference to drinking and Karaoke - and are often sharply observed.
Watching this intense, vividly physicalized abstraction about body, mind, and personal destiny was both exhilarating and exhausting.
Saturday is Breeders' Cup day Stateside, with the cream of American and European talent flocking to Belmont Park on the East Coast for a quite exhilarating series of races.
Acrobatic, exhilarating and captivating, yet full of grace and beauty, diving is the next big thing in sport, writes Anna Millar
Although Monaco is only nine miles distant from Nice - the handiest airport - there is something deeply exhilarating about disembarking from a plane and then rushing toward a waiting whirlybird instead of a boring old hire car.
Yet there's something even more exhilarating about the fact that the men bashing into each other on the court are normal people with essentially normal lives.
Diving through one of the many submarine tunnels and along the cliff faces is truly exhilarating.
Sounding at times like a drunken pop song, the title track is in fact an exhilaratingly happy and twisted piece of work.
Originally made as a three-part series for French TV, it is five-and-a-half hours long in its full form (though a half-length feature is also on release in the UK), exhaustively researched and often exhilarating to watch, as we track the fledgling revolutionary, charmingly portrayed by Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez, through countless countries, attacks, hijackings and escapes, to his eventual arrest in Sudan in 1994. Carlos director Olivier Assayas on the terrorist who became a pop culture icon
The result is an exhilarating, energetic film combining a semi-documentary feel with an exceptionally high standard of acting.
What a scandalous thing to sit here all alone drinking Champagne -- and yet -- (_madame je bois a votre santé et a celle de monsieur_ votre fils) -- and yet, I say, if Champagne be that exhilarating cordial which (_je bois a la santé de Madame Sumtare_) songs and rumour ascribe to it (_a la santé de Mademoiselle Sumtare_), can there be ever an occasion in which its application could be more appropriate, or its virtues more (_mais buvons a la santé de mon hôte et bon ami_, Major Butler). Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
There were times when the process may have tipped over the edge of exhilarating, towards something more like sweated labour.
This is an exhilarating CD and a bargain at Naxos's budget price.
It was exhilarating to be on the road again and his spirits rose.
If, occasionally, his run-on sentences tax your patience and his scrupulous accuracy verges on pedantic, nit-picking neurosis, you never feel like giving up on him - he's too exhilarating.
The music is exhilarating, the costumes are breathtaking, and the acting is superb.
You use your whole experience in a hunt and chase which will hopefully result in an exhilarating, intoxicating experience in some of the most awesome surroundings on the planet.
Sure, it's exhilarating to read a new and undiscovered book that knocks my socks off… I think… I'm not sure it's really happened.
Hair," the musical that turned the counterculture into a hippie-dippy chorus line, has planted itself at the Kennedy Center for a spell -- and what an exhilarating frug down memory lane it proves to be. The wonderfully unruly 'Hair' is still a blowout 42 years after its Broadway debut
The opening chase sequence, accenting its violent end, is exhilaratingly choreographed.
This leaves poets in an exhilaratingly unpoliced playground. The Times Literary Supplement
The sight of a 25 lb salmon racing past less than a metre away is exhilarating.
It is a huge subject, but Munro, director Roxana Silbert and designer Ti Green admirably convey the excitement of scientific progress: the sight of a Sputnik model rotating like a silver ball and an aerially suspended Gagarin spinning through the cosmos is exhilarating. Little Eagles – review
The period details and ludicrous costumes are recreated and the fight scenes are exhilarating.
It's an exhilarating poem with its paradoxical guarantee of risk: there is nothing as vacillating here as a ‘swither’ and it is none the worse for it.
He clearly found the physical exertion exhilarating.
I wondered what they were thinking, then pondered on the fineness of the dividing line between exhilarating adventure and irresponsibility.
First, there is the exhilarating hunch, the certainty of truth.
It is an exhilarating, high-kicking dance in 2/4 time.
Never has fear gripped me so tightly, yet it was exhilarating, fantastic even.
A stiffer suspension, uprated big brakes and a six-speed gearbox guarantee an exhilarating driving experience.
Eric characterizes Clinton's lead in Indiana as "up", which connotes such things as "upbeat" or "exhilarating" -- even though an 8 point lead, if it were real, would be bad news for Clinton at this stage of the game. Poll: Clinton Up By Three Points In Indiana Primary
Few who recall the exhilarating swagger of that victory could fail to be moved by the mournful tone of Friday's television address, or by its suggestion of lost innocence. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Roy's performances, especially the finales, were not for the faint-hearted but the rest of us found them frankly exhilarating, and so did our audiences.
It is exhilarating, like the first glimpse of green grass when entering a baseball stadium.
So balmy and exhilarating is it that it is so much atmospheric wine. CHAPTER XIX
It's a funny and exhilarating movie, which has evidently been made with much care and attention.
We fought a lot, and while the emotional roller coster was sometimes exhilarating, it had grown tiresome. How many clues does one need to give an overly sexy dresser?
And that's kind of petrifying but also exhilarating. Undefined
Night skiing is an exhilarating experience you won't want to miss when fellow skiers gather to ski or board down the main run each night with flares in hand.
Tapping into the exhilarating '60s scene, the band put on fantastic live performances, complete with trippy light shows that encouraged stoners and acid-heads to lose themselves in the music.
In their own way, such incidents stick in the memory as exhilarating adventures.
The balance of power has shifted; this time I truly am in control, and the feeling is exhilarating.
Here, most of the music is exultant and exhilarating, full of polyrhythms that inspire the vocalists to slip and slide over the beats.
His narrative exposition crams in immense acreages of information, while nonetheless barrelling along at an exhilarating speed, and he leavens his social analysis with vignettes of individual Californians who have made a difference.
The compliments get stranger and stranger in this exhilaratingly daft toe-tapper. Times, Sunday Times
A clean-cut chilled gazpacho made an exhilarating appetiser, its sharp tomato edge juxtaposed with a mellow, voluptuous quenelle of crab and avocado.
For that one we have to scrap our exhilarating mini-lecture on Greek roots, but it never did much for phycology, either. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
Show your support and love of boating by choosing the card that depicts an exhilarating ride on a powerboat or the card that features a sailboat with spinnaker flying.
In the best sequences, the mix of high-fashion costumes, postpunk music and energetic direction provides exhilarating cinematic fizz. Times, Sunday Times
For just £10 an hour and with no experience required, it is a really exhilarating way to explore this unique waterway network of shallow lakes formed from medieval peat diggings.
The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
However, the path is going to straighten out, and your final period on Earth will be smooth and exhilarating.
Never has fear gripped me so tightly, yet it was exhilarating, fantastic even.
The record's epic two-parter, "The Creator Has a Master Plan," is a free-form odyssey of hypnotic Nubian empowerment and exhilaratingly cacophonous percussion.
My first parachute jump was an exhilarating experience.
But this douche au jet - apparently guaranteed to firm up my epidermis and get rid of nasty toxins - is, in retrospect at least, tremendously exhilarating.
The story of the elimination of smallpox is in itself an exhilarating one.
Experiencing the pace of change in China was exhilarating.
After being locked down for so long it will be exhilarating to exit my cell and to breathe the fresh desert air.
Both routes of feeding were physically unnatural and all I wanted was that exhilarating feeling of smelling, tasting and savouring food in my mouth again.
Entertaining the masses, though, isn't nearly as exhilarating as executing a perfect dive.
Eric had an exhilarating array of skills, back-heels, stylish flicks, turns and lobs combined with immaculate ball control and touch.
It's an exhilarating experience: crisp, high-altitude air, fresh powder, the search for grip as the snow makes a skyward plume in your wake.
What sets him apart from the very large number of contemporary artists working in the medium is his exhilarating use of colour.
The music is exhilaratingly presented; detailed liner notes make excellent reading.
It was exhilarating to stand in the store, glaring fluorescent light beaming down upon hundreds of shiny cases, each one containing a story.
In the opening credit sequence we know nothing of the man, yet Bolt economically conveys that this is someone who takes risks and finds danger exhilarating.
In charge of 1,000 pupils and 80 members of staff at the Park Avenue secondary school, she is finding her first headship an ‘exhilarating and exciting experience’.
It's exhilarating to climb mountains.
It was exhilarating to stand in the store, glaring fluorescent light beaming down upon hundreds of shiny cases, each one containing a story.
Where the slopes were not seamed with open crevasses we "glissaded," which is a very expeditious and exhilarating method of getting down a mountain, although unsafe unless one is certain of his ground. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
As it was an easy 40-mile ride away we were able to take our time and enjoy the first full day's riding along the exhilarating switchback coastal roads.
Access to worldwide information resources is exhilarating and liberating.
Although exhilarating to open it's not a Christmas present that you'll treasure forever.

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