excite

Example Sentences

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"We live in a world of technology. We need scientists, engineers and mathematicians - and space has a brilliant ability to excite people about those subjects," says Libby Jackson.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

It’s a comparison that might not excite shareholders as Apple faces questions about its record of innovation in recent years.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

In the popular overture, elicitation of tumult concludes, with startling exhilaration, in the kind of grand Beethovenian triumph that never fails to excite.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

That quote indicates that there are many modes in which we can write, and some of them are perfectly fine, but they don’t excite anybody.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

The secretary of war, Henry Knox, also followed the public feuding, and wrote: “The different opinions of the treatment excite great inquietude—But Rush bears down all before him.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy