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

At a time when academia can resemble an archipelago, the disciplines more specialized than finch beaks in the Galápagos, Robinson’s audaciously heterodox thinking can exhilarate.

From New York Times ● Mar. 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

And indeed there is about her a health and sense and sanity that exhilarates you like a very spirit of the green earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manhattan exhilarates Miro, and he expects it to give his art more oomph.

From Time Magazine Archive

The energy, or to use an American term, “the push” of New York exhilarates them, and shows them how easily difficulties, which in less enterprising places seem insurmountable, may be overcome. 

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

Canyon coach Nate Harrison was exhausted and exhilarated afterward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

When he nabbed an undervalued card, he tried to replicate that exhilarated feeling by bidding in more auctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

I went to bed that night exhausted and exhilarated, the hummingbird nest in its neat glass box on my dresser next to my hairpins and ribbons.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

The towering versions assembled by Shaggy and Scooby embodied abundance, customization and the exhilarating possibility that nearly anything could be made better by placing it between two pieces of bread.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

It’s a devilishly strategic move by director Taccone: Mr. Guilfoyle provides a rush of exhilarating wind through a movie that may have started to feel a little sticky, especially around the head wounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Alan Still completed the skydive for Rowleys Centre for the Community in Cranleigh, Surrey, describing the experience as "absolutely exhilarating".

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

I smile at how she laughed when we danced, with a freedom of spirit I found exhilarating in its possibility.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir