How to Use excite in a Sentence

excite

verb
  • The posters excited much interest in the show.
  • Our announcement excited the children.
  • What excites you the most about the changes that are taking place?
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • What excites you the most about fans getting the Glazing Milk in their hands?
    Katie Intner, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2023
  • The idea of dining at a health spa doesn’t excite many people.
    Robin Raven, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
  • What’s the thing that excites you that could be a fourth pillar for Amazon?
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • One of the things that excites him the most about this project is the opportunity to work with Chenoweth again.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 20 July 2023
  • There was nothing about this episode that didn’t excite me.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2023
  • The simplest way to be unhappy is to do work that does not excite you in any way.
    Matt Mayberry, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2023
  • What excites you most about the opportunity to be a part of the Army-Navy game?
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2023
  • People will always want to talk to people about the things that excite them.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 10 July 2023
  • The Rolls Royce of vacuums is a gift that will excite anyone on your list.
    Jaimie Potters, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Something that is likely to excite a lot of iPhone fans.
    Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • This is a list to excite, challenge, delight, a list to bring wonder.
    Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Northwestern, the name, doesn’t excite any of our guys about playing a Big Ten team.
    Nubyjas Wilborn | , al, 8 Mar. 2023
  • These are the 50 establishments in the United States that excite us most right now.
    Eric Kim, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Then Loni commented on the weather – there were some clouds in the distance, and she was excited by the prospect of rain.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The change in emphasis has the running backs room excited as well.
    Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The understudy, as Powers calls her, was not as excited by the whole thing.
    Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The 208-hp four-cylinder hybrid doesn’t excite, but the XLE Hybrid gets good marks for steering and ride.
    Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. 2023
  • So, the real question for CEOs shouldn't be how to cut tech costs, but how to retain and excite their best tech talent.
    Kate Smaje, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The changes, dramatic for a sport so steep in tradition are meant to excite loyal fans and bring in new ones.
    ABC News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Other actors were excited by the prospect of a cast reunion.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Pliska: What excites you about where the Foundation is headed?
    Jessica Pliska, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • There wasn’t anybody that didn’t come back right from the jump, excited like to see a little bit of a film — and this was even before the first trailer.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 July 2023
  • Robert Taylor scored in 44’ with a strike off his right foot just inside the right post to excite the crowd just before halftime.
    Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • Her son will start first grade this fall, and Harrison is excited this time.
    Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Just hours before our call she was offered to play a vampire on TV, a prospect that greatly excites her.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • That’s what excites me about it — the voters really listened and did the work to pay attention.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But others were excited by the prospect of jobs that paid more than the state and federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 an hour.
    Priya Krishna, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023

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