exhilarant

Example Sentences

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A keen smell of the far ocean came to their nostrils and the air was clear and exhilarant.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

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)

Belief which is never oxygenated by open confession can never nourish the soul into vigorous and exhilarant health.

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

He laughed, something exhilarant in his boiling over, and even in her sudden terror of him she looked at his bare teeth and felt the unnice beauty of the storm.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie

I’ve had many a plunge overboard off the California coast that shocked me more than that “natural shower bath” did, but never a one with so exhilarant a reaction.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)