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How to use excitement in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Excitement means the state of being excited (emotionally aroused). Example: “When he just looks at me, my heart begins to palpitate with excitement.”

Examples of excitement by meaning

nounThe state of being excited (emotionally aroused).

  • to get caught up in the excitement
  • Elise nodded, fighting the traitorous flutters of excitement in her stomach.2013, Linda Skye, A Dance with Indecency
  • Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58

More sentences with excitement

  • When he just looks at me, my heart begins to palpitate with excitement.From the entry palpitate
  • He combines the best of classical music with the excitement of the modern sound.From the entry combines
  • Even the rain couldn't take away from the excitement of the match.From the entry take away from
  • He's an adrenaline junkie: he thirsts for excitement the way an alcoholic thirsts for beer.From the entry thirsts
  • After the excitement of Christmas, we quickly sank into postholiday depression.From the entry postholiday
  • As soon as we entered we could feel the excitement and tension in the air.From the entry in the air
  • In all the day's excitement, the goats were left unherded to wander on the mountainside.From the entry unherded
  • The students walked down the hallway, their gigglemugs showing their excitement.From the entry gigglemug
  • The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke.From the entry smoke
  • The excitement in the room began to verge on chaos.From the entry verge on
  • The children are jumping about with excitement as Christmas approaches.From the entry jump about
  • We got swept up in the excitement.From the entry sweep up
  • I hope to share in your excitement about this.From the entry share in
  • "Look! There's a hawk!" He pointed Heavenward in excitement.From the entry heavenward
  • The room was buzzing with excitement.From the entry buzz
  • Her mind was vibrating with excitement.From the entry vibrate
  • He felt a surge of excitement.From the entry surge
  • The young women gave him the excitement of his life when they began to dirty dance with him on the dance floor.From the entry dirty dance
  • Tragic, too, is the gradual deskilling of teachers, loss of excitement about the profession, and loss of gifted teachers to other pursuits.From the entry deskill
  • He was jumping around with excitement.From the entry jump around
  • I'm requesting PTO for this drop, I cannot overstate my excitement.2026 January 25, VIC [username], “Evershine 2026 New Year Plans [reply]”, in Steam Community, via Steam, archived from the original on 05…. From the entry PTO
  • Aahhh reading your excitement made my lil Winxer heart so happy.2025, @aHunniBee, “I finished S3... Lets just say, its absolute PEAK”, in r/winxclub, Reddit, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2025…. From the entry Winxer
  • But judging from the emails he has been receiving, some moviegoers did not share his excitement.2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times. From the entry sport
  • The color schemes are very loud and peaceful with a combination of excitement.2022 August 15, Luke Drew, “SILKY SMOOTH COMFORT FROM ROY G.”, in The Garnette Report, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2023. From the entry dayjamas
  • Your excitement needs to be louder than any anxiety" to finish.2019 June 14, Macaela Mackenzie, Lindsay Geller, “Why Your Orgasm Is MIA—And Exactly What To Do About It”, in Women's Health, archived…. From the entry finish
  • There was great excitement at the Cairo Hotel the next morning.2019 December 10, Bret Harte, Condensed Novels: New Burlesques, Good Press. From the entry dahabieh
  • The fuss and faff meant Christmas had long since been drained of any joy and excitement.2017, Andi Watson, Glister, →ISBN. From the entry faff
  • They are kids who get caught up in the excitement, hysteria of the period.2017, Matthew Hahn, The Robben Island Shakespeare. From the entry toyi-toyi
  • Leaving City Hall with a smile, he mirrored the Berner’s excitement, but for Hillary.2016 June 6, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, “As SF ‘feels the Bern’ and touts #ImWithHer, turnout numbers strong”, in SF Examiner. From the entry Berner
  • Net Art’s political posture was characteristic of the feverish, techno-utopian excitement shared by netheads in general.2016 October 21, Frank Rose, “The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry net art
  • Unable to contain his excitement, Foyʼs voice rose two octaves and took on a Hitlerian fervor.2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 217. From the entry Hitlerian
  • 'What are the Barnies?' asked George, puzzled at Mrs Penruthlan's evident pleasure and excitement.2014, Enid Blyton, Famous Five: 12: Five Go Down To The Sea. From the entry barnie
  • When collaboration is conscious, planned, and shared with others, excitement builds and a conspiracy develops.2013, Leigh Thompson, Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration, page 1. From the entry conspiracy
  • Rodier answered the phone on its first ring, his normally deep, actorlike voice cracking with excitement.2012, M. L. Longworth, Murder in the Rue Dumas: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry actorlike
  • For example, a combination of red (excitement) and yellow (happiness) evokes a feeling of dynamicism.2012, Roger C. Griffin, Principles of Package Development, page 271. From the entry dynamicism
  • With a skitter of excitement, Marcy glanced at the clock on the parlor mantel.2010, Julie Lessman, A Hope Undaunted: A Novel (Winds of Change; 1), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Revell Books, Baker Publishing Group, →ISBN…. From the entry skitter
  • Schlachthofbronx – no, that wasn’t a keyboard smash of excitement at seeing M.I.A.2010 November 15, Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura, “Gigs this week 15.11.10”, in Leeds Student. From the entry keyboard smash

Meaning of excitement

  1. noun The state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
  2. noun Something that excites.

Full definition of excitement

Questions about excitement in a sentence

How do you use excitement in a sentence?
Excitement is used as a noun. For example: “When he just looks at me, my heart begins to palpitate with excitement.”
What is a short sentence with excitement?
“He felt a surge of excitement.”
What does excitement mean?
Excitement means the state of being excited (emotionally aroused).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excitement (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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