excite

Example Sentences

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Does it excite you to have a problem to fix?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

In the popular overture, elicitation of tumult concludes, with startling exhilaration, in the kind of grand Beethovenian triumph that never fails to excite.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

"We've spoken a lot about wanting to excite a nation. We didn't do it against England. We've got another four games in this tournament and we'll make sure we do it next week."

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

Kelly: Did the project and the new management at Spurs excite you as well in the summer?

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

The secretary of war, Henry Knox, also followed the public feuding, and wrote: “The different opinions of the treatment excite great inquietude—But Rush bears down all before him.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy