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Recent Examples of exclamationMatt Prater's 32-yard field goal as time expired put an exclamation mark on what could turn out to be the NFL's Game of the Year, but some will remember Sunday's game for what happened away from the field.—Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 Or too much filler could be injected, which could lead to labia with an exclamation mark after them.—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 Crucially, the minutes leading up to those exclamations were not business as usual.—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025 Travis, sitting next to Swift, plays his part as a hype man during the intro by chiming in with exclamations to underline her most impressive accomplishments.—Bryan West, The Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exclamation
Skinner's interjection became one of the biggest twists of the viral feud sensation between Gaines and Biles in early June.
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Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
Having been friends and collaborators for over two decades, the group's conversations are lively and filled with excited interjections, ultimately leading to agreement.
Her newest venture into the genre is Hulu’s The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, a remake of the 1992 thriller of the same name, in which Winstead stars opposite fellow scream queen, Maika Monroe.
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Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
22 Oct. 2025
For the past decade, Monroe has established herself as a mainstay in the horror genre, not just a dependable player but a true modern scream queen who’s able to elevate predictable fare, stand toe-to-toe with monsters of all kinds, and, of course, lead modern classics to even greater heights.
Led by blaring ‘80s synthesizers and a pounding beat, the song features a distorted lead vocal from D’Angelo, who accompanies himself on multitracked backing vocals with the occasional soul shriek thrown in for good measure.
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Jem Aswad,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
But that doesn’t give a sense of how absorbingly otherworldly the film is, with its wordless beginnings and its shriek of a score from Jonny Greenwood.
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