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How to use the word Exclamation in a Sentence?

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It’s going to take a while to unpack, we’re still reacting to a relatively sudden change. Certainly the last few years have been a dramatic exclamation point on a trend that was just developing after 2016.

Ted Scambos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can walk and chew gum. You can do both, the fact that we are paying these outrageous prices is almost an exclamation point on the fact that we need to move to clean energy so we are not in this position in the future.

Jennifer Granholm

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a very good chance we would reach $ 100 [ per barrel ]. That's going to be inflationary with an exclamation point, we don't need that at all. We can't afford that at all.

Robert Yawger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There is a very good chance we would reach $ 100. That's going to be inflationary with an exclamation point, we don't need that at all. We can't afford that at all.

Robert Yawger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One-quarter of those deaths have occurred since the surge of infections from the Delta variant, so that puts an exclamation point on the fact, just how deadly the Delta variant has been for all of us.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are far closer to taking climate change seriously, because for the first time one of our major political parties... now sees climate change as one of the absolute top issues, that simply was not the case 12 months ago. Period, bold, underlined, exclamation point. That will have consequences.

Anthony Leiserowitz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I completely disregarded [ a nomination ] as a possibility, i just considered it to be such a long shot... It was actually Bill who texted me. I was in my hotel room getting ready to go to set for' Bill Ted 3, and Bill texted me,' Congrats, dude.' That's it -- no exclamation point, no nothing. I was like,' On what ? Did the show get nominated ?' And he said,' You got nominated,' So that was a really, really cool moment. And I just kind of had to stare at the floor for a few minutes.

Anthony Carrigan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm Jeb, exclamation point, i'm proud to be a Bush.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

No candidate has really stumbled yet, but I would have to say that Jeb Bush's appearance on the debut of ‘Colbert’ was a missed opportunity, he seemed stuck a bit too much in ‘campaign’ mode and probably could have taken more opportunities at humor, like when Colbert made fun of the exclamation point on his logo.

Ted Johnson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He's so cool, getting that phone call, like 'Hey, would you like to go and play with the Rolling Stones?' Yes. That's an immediate yes. That is a bold, underline, exclamation point, yes.

Taylor Swift

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Republicans, I think, see this as an opportunity to put an exclamation mark on what happened on Nov. 4.

John Cummins

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.

Thomas Hardy

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Mistinguett

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I write music with an exclamation point

Richard Wagner

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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