exhilarate

They were very big shoes to fill, but 110 goals and 75 assists for Chelsea had demonstrated Hazard's ability to consistently excite and exhilarate at the highest level.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2023

Oakeshott understood in 1961 that modernity’s emancipation of the individual from the “warmth of communal pressures” did not exhilarate everyone.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2021

They’re our life’s towering originals, the difficult ones who infuriate us and exhilarate us in equal measure.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2016

Photograph: John Alex Maguire /Rex Features Winning Words is a project intended to highlight during the 2012 Olympics; it's also an anthology – Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life – designed to exhilarate.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2012

In his secret life, Walter was a fabulously wealthy entrepreneur. exhilarate.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

He added: "Moana 2 exhilarates with its tunefulness, and absolutely romps along from the moment the heroine gets off the island, bound for another adventure on her trusty outrigger canoe."

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024

Ever since moving here, I feel like I’ve been searching for that buzz, that indication of what exhilarates the arts patrons in this city.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

The wit is in the film's dialogue; it exhilarates even as it horrifies.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Free University is an island in a sea so dangerous that it exhilarates the inhabitants.

From Time Magazine Archive

Altogether "Sandy" thrills and exhilarates as does little of the present day fiction.

From The Return of the Prodigal by Sinclair, May

When he nabbed an undervalued card, he tried to replicate that exhilarated feeling by bidding in more auctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

They lacked the clarity and nuance of Cheng and Gershon, but Wang’s exhilarated rhythmic grooves had lives of their own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

"I was exhilarated, knowing that this natural insight had led to a major breakthrough," Zargartalebi said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

The CGI glamour throughout “Wicked” can be intoxicating, but in this climax it enables Erivo’s Elphaba to soar like a comet and declare her independence with exhilarated determination:

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024

Her adrenaline gives her face a twinge of color, her cheeks a bright, exhilarated pink.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

The towering versions assembled by Shaggy and Scooby embodied abundance, customization and the exhilarating possibility that nearly anything could be made better by placing it between two pieces of bread.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

When the driver was thanked by the officer, he said: "I am just glad I could be of service. That was quite exhilarating."

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

With Esa-Pekka Salonen as this year’s music director, the festival saw an exhilarating return to its essence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

But it is true that bad boys can be exhilarating until they crash and burn—like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

I found it frightening, invigorating, daunting, and exhilarating all at the same time.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini