exhilarate

They were very big shoes to fill, but 110 goals and 75 assists for Chelsea had demonstrated Hazard's ability to consistently excite and exhilarate at the highest level.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2023

Oakeshott understood in 1961 that modernity’s emancipation of the individual from the “warmth of communal pressures” did not exhilarate everyone.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2021

We — he and we, together — were forging deeper into the unknown, and it seemed to exhilarate him.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2018

Photograph: John Alex Maguire /Rex Features Winning Words is a project intended to highlight during the 2012 Olympics; it's also an anthology – Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life – designed to exhilarate.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2012

In his secret life, Walter was a fabulously wealthy entrepreneur. exhilarate.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

He added: "Moana 2 exhilarates with its tunefulness, and absolutely romps along from the moment the heroine gets off the island, bound for another adventure on her trusty outrigger canoe."

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024

Ever since moving here, I feel like I’ve been searching for that buzz, that indication of what exhilarates the arts patrons in this city.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

He rushes off to Paris, whose air exhilarates him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wit is in the film's dialogue; it exhilarates even as it horrifies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our own observation is that there is nothing that so loosens the hinge of the tongue, soothes the temper, exhilarates the diaphragm, kindles sociality and makes the future promising.

From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

Canyon coach Nate Harrison was exhausted and exhilarated afterward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Matisse said he dreamed of an art that exerted “a soothing, calming influence on the mind,” but we leave Acquavella exhilarated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

"I was exhilarated, knowing that this natural insight had led to a major breakthrough," Zargartalebi said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

The CGI glamour throughout “Wicked” can be intoxicating, but in this climax it enables Erivo’s Elphaba to soar like a comet and declare her independence with exhilarated determination:

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024

He was smiling, exhilarated, liberated and meanly enjoying a weapon he did not know lay in his arsenal.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

While the preparation of performances, and the creative process generally, is not the stuff of exhilarating TV, it is here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

But the real exhilarating and exultant joy is that of the chase — two very different men forced on the run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

It was exhilarating as strangers and former pupils popped in, from India to Brazil to Ukraine to a block away from where I lived.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Mastering this unusual system has proved a challenge but an exhilarating one, with the print moving at 180 feet per minute, twice the speed of a conventional projector.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Even though it was empty, something felt exhilarating and wrong about running across a road that big.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green