exhilarant

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Certainly ill-fortune must have befallen some one to make the good man so exhilarant.

From Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio

And surely that is the best deliverance in all affliction, to be made so spiritually exhilarant that we can rise above it.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

It was a sham exhilarant to which fatal reactions could not but attach.

From On Nothing and Kindred Subjects by Belloc, Hilaire

The knowledge seemed to have no very exhilarant effect, and in his case bore some resemblance to being born tired.

From The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

I take the wildering whirl, enjoyment's keenest pain, Enamored hate, exhilarant disdain.

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard