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Recent Examples of exclamationIts lilting melody leads the listener by the band straight into the fist-pumping chorus, which simply repeats the title multiple times — with the exclamation mark included.—Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 June 2025 Look for devices with a yellow exclamation mark next to them.—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2025 Richie, who let out enthusiastic exclamations throughout the performance, was transported right back to high school.—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025 Dramatic piano chords are stuck alongside sepia title cards that are pleasantly full of exclamation marks.—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for exclamation
This suggests that pain interjections may have originated from nonlinguistic vocalizations.
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Katarzyna Pisanski,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2025
His obsessive tweeting, often in the early hours of the morning, meant that bizarre and venomous interjections into the political process could erupt at any time of day or night, that at any moment the ground might again shift beneath us.
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Rebecca Solnit
April 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2021
Hunt, Texas — Ever since dawn on the Fourth of July, a broken hearts club bigger than Texas has been forced to imagine the speed of water and the screams of children.
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Bill Weir,
CNN Money,
14 July 2025
Factory workers heard screams, but couldn’t save their colleague.
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Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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