(n.) A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
(n.) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
(n.) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is early days, and what is to say the people of Gateshead or Cardiff will be quite so forthcoming with the exclamations of "cool", "awesome" and "neat" as the audience in Oxford.
(2) Boom!” tweeted Morgan, utilising a local exclamation.
(3) The distinguishing criteria are: lack of pigment in infected red blood cells; no circulating schizonts or gametocytes; "atypical" malarialike organisms; tetrad groups, rods, or exclamation-mark forms; and persisting parasitemia after treatment for malaria.
(4) The reference to “global” tables is part of the argument that says doing exclamation marks better than Johnny Foreigner enables British capitalism to compete better with the Chinese.
(5) A transfer to the West End was highly successful, and Richard Attenborough directed the star-studded film version of 1969 (for which the title acquired an exclamation mark).
(6) After a tense first half, the second act, which includes the depiction of Klinghoffer’s murder, was quieter, with a sole exclamation of “this is shit!” by a woman in the stalls, who was hushed by the rest of the audience.
(7) After his statements drew angry exclamations and arguments from men standing nearby, Valery's wife pulled him away and they left.
(8) #voterid October 2, 2012 The exclamation point is needed, there, we'd note, because the Pennsylvania legislature this year passed a law denying voters their right to simply show up at the polls and cast their votes, secure in their own anonymity and freedom from coercion before or after their ballots were cast.
(9) There are plenty more exclamation marks where those came from.
(10) He could recognize Arabic music and instruments but not words of songs; a radio broadcast from the Koran, but not the individual words; a male as opposed to female voice; Arabic and non-Arabic languages; and whether sentences were questions, exclamations, or imperatives.
(11) The prime diagnostic feature of acute alopecia areata is the presence of exclamation mark hairs.
(12) The only exclamation the producers want from you is "Wow!"
(13) So they commissioned a logo to promote the area, hiring a designer who offered a stylised exclamation mark (their official slogan, “Kumamoto Surprise”, was a bright spin on the fact that many Japanese would be surprised to find anything in Kumamoto worth seeing).
(14) Sunday's NFL conference championships could tell us more than just who will be playing in Super Bowl XLVIII: they may provide exclamation points on that sexiest of matchups in the sport, the quarterback rivalry.
(15) It bothers me but it's hard when you're one of them people who don't know where to stop sentences or put commas or exclamation marks.
(16) 'I was a weird child' Hall speaks in elongated Memphis vowels, using exclamation marks and Big Capital Letters for emphasis, often sounding like a cartoon version of herself.
(17) Things are moving forward, largely on track.” Nevertheless, as Trump enters his second month, there will be many praying for a steadier hand and fewer tweets ending with exclamation marks.
(18) Her demeanour - wide features, plain dress, a quickness to exclamation - has long been used to diminish her authority as one of Britain's most popular crime writers.
(19) (The most grim moment being his exclamation “I’ll love you till I make it pop”.)
(20) But when I saw the advert it occurred to me that it, and that supercilious exclamation mark in particular, could in fact give people an excuse to express their homophobia.
Utterance
Definition:
(n.) The act of uttering.
(n.) Sale by offering to the public.
(n.) Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes.
(n.) Vocal expression; articulation; speech.
(n.) Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance.
(n.) The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(2) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
(3) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(4) Theresa May has shown a complete and utter lack of interest in Northern Ireland since taking office.
(5) The results of the present study focused on differences in types of self-touching by patients and physicians, semantic content of utterances when self-touching was displayed, and temporal location of self-touching within the speech stream.
(6) A single-subject design was applied to study increase in functional use of language by a 14-yr.-old Down Syndrome girl from a mean length of utterance of 1.3 words to 4.4 in a classroom, 5.1 in the restaurant, and 4.7 during transportation.
(7) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
(8) Instead, because of other people, it all too often becomes something else: a complete and utter hell.
(9) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
(10) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
(11) "How these union bosses get elected, how they raise money, how they disperse money is a complete and utter mystery.
(12) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(13) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
(14) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
(15) The changes in Parkinsonian subjects of the cross-sectional area during the utterance of sustained sounds are attributed to both Parkinsonian tremor and rigidity.
(16) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
(17) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
(18) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
(19) The IFS says similar declines emerge if you set the figure as low as 40% of median income – utterly refuting Nick Clegg's toxic line dismissing the threshold as just "poverty plus a pound" .
(20) "Public sector workers and their families are utterly shocked by Jeremy Clarkson's revolting comments.