exhilarant

Example Sentences

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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)

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

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard

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

From On Nothing and Kindred Subjects by Belloc, Hilaire

Psyche has loosed herself from the fettering contact of Daimon, and lo, now, how daintily she poises on tiptoe, fluttering her wings ere she launches like a star into the wide exhilarant ether!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

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)