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Example sentences for "exciting"

Lexicographically close words:
excitement; excitements; exciter; exciters; excites; exclaim; exclaimed; exclaiming; exclaims; exclamation
  1. That is exciting enough to take attention away even from the oysters, for the waratah, the handsomest wildflower of the world, is becoming rare around the cities.

  2. The bushranger made a good deal of exciting history in Australia.

  3. Among them the sexual exciting relations, preparatory to the reproductive act, are never indulged in by the male except during the mating season.

  4. The story tells of the many and exciting adventures in this car as it journeys from place to place.

  5. On the way they capture a leopard escaped from a circus, which exciting adventure brings about an amusing acquaintance with the strange people who belong to the traveling show.

  6. The boys wake up one morning to find Black Lake flooded far over its banks, and the solving of this mystery furnishes some exciting reading.

  7. A party of guests at the Sykes ranch in 1881, including Ewen Grant of Inverness, learned that a buffalo was grazing with the Sykes cattle, and in the exciting chase to bag the animal Grant had the good fortune to despatch him.

  8. One of the most exciting battles of the first legislative session was the bill to license the Louisiana Lottery.

  9. They seemed to spring right up out of the ground when anything exciting happened.

  10. But we will let you guess, with Russ and Rose and Vi and Laddie and Margy and Mun Bun, where the next exciting adventures of the half dozen youngsters from Pineville will take place.

  11. Something exciting was always happening to all of the six little Bunkers.

  12. I surrounded the whole with sticks, paper and pine cones and then came the exciting moment when I "touched her off," as boys say.

  13. There was no more exciting moment in my boyhood than when a pickerel swallowed the frog's leg on my hook and began to retreat with it under the lily pads.

  14. After spending seventeen years of this exciting life, the Polos longed to see their native city again; but the monarch, who was now an old man, would not consent to part with them.

  15. The underlying idea still was to acquire all this for a fourth of its price--an exciting bait which lured the economical man into continuous dissipation.

  16. She made a fine run to Key West, where anchor was cast at six o’clock December 11th, without anything of an exciting nature to enliven the trip except striking a school of finback whales about ten o’clock on the morning of the tenth.

  17. If something exciting would happen--if I could fall in love!

  18. Alexia dearly loved to spin out her exciting news as long as possible, driving the girls almost frantic by such methods.

  19. It being soon told, Alexia, who evidently had some exciting piece of news for Polly, ran into the house.

  20. We had reached that exciting scene where Gessler, the Austrian tyrant, commands Tell to shoot the apple from his son's head.

  21. Just at the most exciting point of the game, the ship would careen, and down would go the white checkers pell-mell among the black.

  22. Not even in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is there anything more exciting than the bloodhound chase after the hero.

  23. A good deal of the fighting they talk about as if it was an exciting sort of football match, full of sells and tricks and chances.

  24. It is 368 paces, so I've done it six times to well cover a mile, but it is not an exciting walk!

  25. We have only taken twelve cases on as yet, but are having quite an exciting afternoon.

  26. Very quiet day; it always is after exciting rumours which come to nothing!

  27. We woke at Sotteville near Rouen this morning, and later in the day had a most fatiguing and much too exciting adventure over catching the train.

  28. It has so far been the most exciting journey the train has had.

  29. In the exciting affray between Pete and Pritchen the Indians for a time had been forgotten.

  30. Pritchen's gang, who was getting restless and anxious for something exciting to happen.

  31. Utterly worn out, Setley fell asleep--a slumber broken with dreams of the exciting episodes of the last few hours.

  32. You've no call to complain that it hasn't been exciting enough.

  33. I fear I am exciting you too much with my astonishing revelations," said the detective, kindly.

  34. Their hatred of Napoleon suggested to them the infamous idea of exciting the naïve royalists of France by raising hopes they never meant to satisfy.

  35. Altogether, the day even at home had been an exciting one.

  36. You have a strange power of exciting and keeping down my temper, at one and the same time!

  37. It was found wonderfully refreshing to talk to Faith: her eyes were something pleasant to look at, for more than George Alcott; and the truth of her enjoyment and gratitude made it a captivating thing to be the means of exciting them.

  38. She yielded at last, through fear of exciting him and injuring his health.

  39. Meanwhile, a certain exciting pleasure was caused in his mind by the thought of Pani Mashko's astonishment when she should learn that he had gone, and had no intention to visit her.

  40. All this, though Hubert made light of it with characteristic modesty, seemed to his hearers of the nature of thrilling and exciting romance.

  41. It’s the fearfully exciting life girls of her monde seem to lead nowadays.

  42. Teems with novel incident, and bristles with exciting adventures.

  43. I’m not sure that the climate of Tasmania or Melbourne wouldn’t brace us all up after the rather—well, not particularly exciting life we’ve had for the last year.

  44. What happened this morning was equally as exciting and a long story, so I'm going to stop and sharpen my pencil, for I despise to write exciting things with a pencil that won't half write.

  45. Well, it was an exciting moment of my life when I was sliding that thing backwards and forwards and thinking all sorts of heroic thoughts, but I gritted my teeth and didn't look up until I had got the twelve strokes struck.

  46. It's a very thrilling and exciting thing to be a bride and if you can't be a bride you can still manage to get a good many thrills out of just a bridesmaid.

  47. If we take up a book, and we find that, without foolish scruple, it is raising doubts in our mind or exciting our imagination in perilous directions, then we must be brave enough to close it, and not open it again.

  48. It appears that this is all that Zelphine and I are to hear on this most exciting subject, although we are naturally devoured with curiosity to know more.

  49. Zelphine and I are so wide awake after our exciting drive that we are devoting the evening to letter-writing, both of us being sadly in arrears.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exciting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.