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How to use exuberance in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Exuberance means the quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness. Example: “When the irrational exuberance finally ended and the central bank took away the punch bowl, the business world belatedly sobered up.”

Examples of exuberance by meaning

nounThe quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.

  • Tottenham's desire for a win against a Norwich side playing with energy and exuberance made for an enthralling, end-to-end game.2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport
  • The stock market found itself at a similar moment 29 years ago, when Alan Greenspan famously warned of “irrational exuberance” fueling a bubble in internet stocks.2025 December 9, Joe Rennison, “Wall Street Is Shaking Off Fears of an A.I. Bubble. For Now.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The...

nounAn overflowing quantity; superfluousness.

  • an exuberance of branches in a plant

More sentences with exuberance

  • When the irrational exuberance finally ended and the central bank took away the punch bowl, the business world belatedly sobered up.From the entry sober up
  • The youthful exuberance of the T-Tauri stage was thus spent after about 10 million years.2021, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction. From the entry protosun
  • I liken the exuberance of astrophiles to the desperation of cancer patients.1997 January 12, John Ladasky, “Re: Space junk??? Not here. Time for a new newsgroup?”, in alt.politics.greens (Usenet). From the entry astrophilia
  • His name was Spiridon, he was a charismatic Corfiote, and his exuberance was inexhaustible.1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 406. From the entry Corfiot
  • He broadsworded one of his dogs in exuberance and it lay there whimpering till it expired.1993, Edward Sanders, “[An East Village Hippie in King Arthur’s Court] Arthur Flips Out”, in Hymn to the Rebel Cafe, Santa Rosa, Calif.…. From the entry broadsword
  • His green eyes sparkled with an exuberance that looked almost bairnlike.1991, Rebecca Sinclair, Wild Scottish Embrace, Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry bairnlike
  • The letters were executed clumsily, with a smeary black kindergarten exuberance.1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Random House, published 2009, page 132. From the entry smeary
  • Rajamouli’s phenomenally successful Raj-era Indian action epic that, for sheer boffo exuberance, outdid anything the studios churned out this year.2022 December 22, Peter Rainer, “Beyond the blockbusters: The 10 best films of 2022”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry boffo
  • “All the lyrics talk about is humility and heartbreak, and then at the end it’s exuberance and joy,” Hines said.2019 June 7, Scott Allen, “How Mumford and Sons became the soundtrack for Capitals’ Stanley Cup triumph”, in The Washington Post. From the entry back-pocket
  • Team Jacob argues that Jacob's warmth, support, and wolfy exuberance should have won Bella away from her vampire swain.2010, Liv Spencer, Love Bites: The Unofficial Saga of Twilight, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry Team Jacob
  • To some extent, the presence in the book of a drunken logomaniac such as Willy gives Auster's prose a new exuberance.1999 June 21, Toby Mundy, “Novel of the week: Timbuktu by Paul Auster”, in New Statesman, retrieved 27 Sep 2010. From the entry logomaniac
  • Characters drift against a churchish background; the central women like the novel do not possess Pym's usual exuberance and irony.1998, Four British Women Novelists: Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Iris Murdoch, Barbara Pym: An Annotated and Critical Secondary…. From the entry churchish
  • He was the only one it seemed, be cause of his exuberance, his optimism, his healthy face and appetite and talk, that was untainted.1913, John Kerry King, Southeast Asia in Perspective, University of California, page 150. From the entry superself
  • First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.2020, Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future, page 145. From the entry calculator
  • It was assumed, consequently, that their characteristic of suddenly losing their immobility and rattling a rapid tattoo against the main stem was some strange form of triffidian amatory exuberance.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 45. From the entry triffidian
  • Belacqua gave heed to what was being said to him, and elicited in the end from an exuberance of coprolalia that the main was requiring him to go.1932 (date written), Samuel Beckett, chapter 2, in Eoin O’Brien, Edith Fournier, editors, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, London; Paris…. From the entry wharfinger

Meaning of exuberance

  1. noun The quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.
  2. noun An instance of exuberant behaviour.
  3. noun An overflowing quantity; superfluousness.

Full definition of exuberance

Questions about exuberance in a sentence

How do you use exuberance in a sentence?
Exuberance is used as a noun. For example: “When the irrational exuberance finally ended and the central bank took away the punch bowl, the business world belatedly sobered up.”
What is a short sentence with exuberance?
“an exuberance of branches in a plant”
What does exuberance mean?
Exuberance means the quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness.

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