(v. t. & i.) To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.
(n.) Outcry; clamor.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the eminent biologist TH Huxley met Gladstone for the first time in 1877, in the company of Darwin , he exclaimed afterwards: “Why, put him in the middle of a moor, with nothing in the world but his shirt, and you could not prevent him being anything he liked.” This is my view of Cicero: drop him into Westminster or Washington or any other political culture and he would instantly begin clambering to the top.
(2) We need to do it now," friends breathlessly exclaim, alternating tearful telephone calls with the bank and the estate agent.
(3) When he took the lease on his house at Soisy, he exclaimed: 'Ah, now there's a real garden for a pistol duel.'")
(4) Or actually speaking out loud to exclaim "Ooft, another kick in the bladder".
(5) (“Why are they holding on to your money?” she exclaims, not unreasonably.
(6) Keola Akana exclaimed after being the first of the group to complete the license application with his groom, Ethan Wung.
(7) It’s the government chief whip in my garden,” Delingpole exclaims.
(8) Registering my surprise, he exclaims, “Of course!
(9) There are things in my notebook which I later published and therefore always remember: the breathless, denim-jacketed couple from the provinces asking: “Excuse me, is this the way out?”; the man walking up Friedrichstrasse who exclaimed “28 years and 91 days!” (that’s how long he had been stuck behind the Wall); the improvised poster proclaiming “Only today is the war really over”.
(10) Instead, Aya looked up at her sister and exclaimed “Pick me up, Donkey!” Over the coming weeks I revisited them and – as with Khouloud and her family – witnessed the strength of their love and unity.
(11) Can you believe it’s 2016?” Mirren exclaimed at the lectern.
(12) This maddened one of his booking agents, who exclaimed: “I’d talk to him and all he’d say was ‘bells’ or ‘ding, ding’!” Young was the originator of the term “bread” as an expression for money, and habitually called both men and women “lady”.
(13) Observers described the vote as more of a referendum on Lula, while the front-page headline of one Rio newspaper yesterday exclaimed: "Phew!
(14) 1.41pm GMT 11 min: ‘England are playing some tidy football,’ exclaims the BBC’s John Motson, shocked by a display of incontrovertible Anglo-competence.
(15) exclaimed President François Hollande earlier this year.
(16) One carried a sign exclaiming: "Mr President, stay away from our kids."
(17) The tabloid Bild exclaimed, "Rocky knocks Hamburg out" , while headlines in the local press dubbed the musical "a triumph" and declared: "Big emotions; big theatre".
(18) And when that happens, some of the iPhone users who snicker today at phablets will be trumpeting the virtues of Apple's latest products, and they'll be exclaiming how innovative it all is.
(19) As Trump stumbled on questions about Middle East, one Republican, Patricia Dancey, exclaimed: “What a strange guy.” Dancey became a Rubio fan in the course of the debate.
(20) "We shouldn't have fascists there," exclaimed Alexis Tsipras of Syriza.
Proclaim
Definition:
(v. t.) To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.
(v. t.) To outlaw by public proclamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to Sir Jimmy, those who proclaim the age of the train rarely get it right.
(2) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
(3) The soiree's proclaimed objective is to build a "caucus of common sense" with Senate Republicans.
(4) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
(5) Everywhere I go the people proclaim me the president of Congo."
(6) Cocaine was considered incapable of producing dependence in 1980 but was recently proclaimed the drug of greatest national health concern.
(7) When it was first licensed for the European food market six years ago, baobab was – with a certain inevitability –proclaimed a superfood to rival quinoa, blueberries and kale.
(8) We need to show the reality we are living in.” The protesters carried banners, proclaiming: “Obama’s trip to Cuba isn’t for fun.
(9) He was a self-proclaimed cleric, though he had no formal qualifications or any evidence to support his claims.
(10) Like Demirtaş, Erdoğan proclaimed his desire to allow greater freedom and self-expression not just for his own constituency, but for all neglected citizens of the republic – including the Kurds, who in the mid-2000s voted for him in large numbers.
(11) Rebels had previously claimed they lacked weapons to strike at that range, but a spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic told AFP its fighters had shot down the two aircraft.
(12) Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 from the rostrum – shortly before ordering the expansion of the square.
(13) Republican convention live: roll call vote to officially nominate Trump begins Read more Crossing the threshold of 1,237 votes, Trump officially became the Republican party’s nominee for president, as the stage in Cleveland was illuminated with a message proclaiming: “Over the Top”.
(14) There is, scientists proclaim, a crisis in biomedical research.
(15) Others are taking the rally at face value and planning to turn up with banners proclaiming themselves part of the reasonable majority, liberal or conservative, against the particular brand of insanity that has swept America since Barack Obama entered the White House.
(16) But, as the church itself proclaims, redemption is always possible for a sinner.
(17) His supporters sport T-shirts proclaiming "100% Zulu Boy".
(18) Instead they said their role was to prevent weapons reaching the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic".
(19) Sometimes these slogans proclaim the wearer's enjoyment of football ("Keep calm and play football!")
(20) August 1995 After poorly contested elections, the EPRDF swept to power; the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was proclaimed, and Meles became Ethiopia's first prime minister.