exhilarant

Example Sentences

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

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard

The lecturer took it as a matter of course, and replied, "Oh, yes, you will find the whole atmosphere of Boston exhilarant with intellectual vitality."

From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various

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

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

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)