Definition of exclamationnext
as in cry
a sudden short emotional utterance the good news was greeted with a chorus of joyous exclamations

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Recent Examples of exclamation For Mater Dei Catholic, Saturday’s win serves as an exclamation mark on what has been a season of notable growth for the program. Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026 Mayor Mamdani on Friday sounded off against ICE and issued an executive order aimed at putting an exclamation on point on the city’s existing sanctuary policies. Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026 Listeners replied with claps and exclamations of eager agreement. Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026 Which is why that exclamation mark exists. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for exclamation
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Noun
  • Sean said the dogs knocked his mother to the ground and continued attacking her as a passerby, who heard her cries from about a block away, rushed over on a bicycle to help.
    Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Amazingly, there didn’t seem to be a single boo or any cries of dissent.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Hartzman also gave Cactus Club a shout out from the Turner Hall stage.
    Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The prologue that opens Ragtime loudly announces the musical’s epic ambitions as its nine fictional characters and six of its historical figures introduce themselves with third-person narration and shout-singing.
    Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Audience members quickly realized the interjection wasn’t part of the session and called for security to remove him.
    Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Two people were arrested for disrupting the meeting with anti-CoreCivic interjections.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Kinsella was excited for Yates’ voice to be an easter egg—one of many voices to be deciphered by fans among a scream-singing chorus.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Another video, filmed inside the bus and shared on TikTok, captured the terrified screams of students who were riding the bus at the time.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Is such an existential shriek into the abyss, all while living in a society suffused by mind-numbing grief and nationalism, worth subjecting yourself to?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Lee’s introduction of Liu sparked shrieks, mostly among young students from the nearby Oakland School for the Arts, which Liu also attended for one semester.
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The very much unrated film — showing unsimulated full penetration and ejaculation — streamed from 2017 until well into 2020.
    Gustavo Turner, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Millions of sperm can remain in the tubes, typically requiring about 20 to 30 ejaculations to clear.
    Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026

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“Exclamation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclamation. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.

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