Example sentences for: exclaim

How can you use “exclaim” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • People now exclaim whew! after a close call, or humph or harrumph when impatient.

  • I've never met a psychiatrist clumsy enough to use the words "Oedipal conflict" with a patient, let alone to explain it by invoking Sophocles, but this dumb bit is worth it to watch De Niro blanch, shake his head in disgust at the thought of Oedipus and his mom, and exclaim, "Fuckin' Greece."

  • No longer the sole habitat of sun worshippers, the islands welcome thousands of cyclists in early spring; April and May bring hikers to exclaim over wildflowers; and bird-watchers with binoculars and zoom lenses record rarities and migrants on their way north.

  • The more we exclaim how horrified we are by child molestation, the more we can permit ourselves to linger, in a way that's not far from lascivious, over images of childish bodies.

  • Rotcod surveyed his sentence with considerable pride, and discovered that the statement was a palindrome, causing him to exclaim: “ ` A man!


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